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Tae_kyon
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Sorry, my mistake ... a slip of the tongue, ehm finger ... I meant pulseaudio not alsa of course!
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szatox
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Bump!
I gave psi with jingle another try (in case anyone didn't know psi, it's xmpp/jabber client). Doesn't have echo cancelation and does not support video AKA you better use it with headphones, but once you provide it a name of STUN server it has a good chance of piercing NATs and firewalls. This means... direct voice chat from one private network to another private network. Without proxy, without botnets. Streams take like 40kbps each direction.
It turned out the most tricky part is making your computer-illiterate friends reach that 5th tab in account settings and type STUN server address there  |
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genoobish
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v_andal
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| genoobish wrote: | Has anybody heard of apulse? I found this on the arch forums.
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There's even a thread in this forum discussing use of apulse together with skype. Just put 'apulse' USE flag for skype and run emerge --update --newuse. It works for me. |
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Naib
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| Naib wrote: | | Fitzcarraldo wrote: |
Thanks for posting. I had never heard of WebRTC so decided to check it out, and indeed it turns out to be a viable alternative for some of the functions offered by Skype (although I did not check if Skype-to-landline, something I need to use quite often, is replicated by any of the commercial Web sites that use WebRTC).
I did not find the WebRTC free demo sites particularly intuitive to use, so have prepared a blog post (WebRTC – A viable alternative to Skype) as an aide-mémoire and to help others. |
MS are actually working on a WebRTC based Skype. The present beta needs a 3rd party plugin to work via your browser, but the aim is to be a plugin-less, using WebRTC webclient. |
Looks like it is in Skype for Web is in beta https://login.skype.com.
It seems to actively check useragent string but when I switch it it IE8 it logs in. So far it seems focused on making called so no access to VOIP or chat
But as I stated, no plugin required (uses webRTc)  whether MS makes it useragent Agnostic is another thing. BUT if you still need skype (and unfortunately some do...)
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stephan-t
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| Started this week the uTox client and this is very good alternative. Maybe try the command line clients, because i want more than GUI. |
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Chiitoo
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Bäh. They started shoving a Skype web-interface over to Outlook as well, which I've been using to stay in contact with people. The 'messenger' there was (and partially still is) was (and is) horrible, too, but they're making it even /worse/.
Not that I'd expect anything else from them, but I digress.
I'm not here to rant about that, but rather giving a heads-up with regards to Tox.
The domains tox.im, toxme.se, and libtoxcore.so are no longer to be associated with the Tox Project (the domains belong to the Tox Foundation, which is no longer a part of the Tox Project).
The current site is: https://tox.chat/
For a (GUI) client, qTox is what I would mostly recommend at this time.
The tox-overlay (https://github.com/Tox/gentoo-overlay-tox) has been available via app-portage/layman for some time now.
As to why the new site, this will explain at least some of it: https://blog.tox.chat/2015/07/current-situation-3/
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