Re: [linux-audio-user]Skype and internet jamming [was Howto record PCM (from realplayer)?]

From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 20:46:30 EET

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:34:22PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:28:25 +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
> > actually, the quality of music broadcast through skype (setting the
> > "mix" channel of a sblive to be captured) seems to be just as good as if
> > you were hearing it locally ...
> Hmm.. cool :) I had no idea what codec they were using, but as it sounds
> so good for voice, I assumed it was voice optimised (like ogg speex).
> According to the website it uses up to 128 kbps if you have the bandwidth.
>
> For those people who are shapening thier free-software knives :) you could
> also use gnome-meeting, which lets you pick appropriate codecs, and is
> free as in speech.

Skype scares me in the same way that mp3 should have scared me before I
knew fraunhofer was not my friend.

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