| Edmond Rodriguez on 10 May 2011 08:27:26 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Future of Skype on Linux? |
The biggest issue I have had was talking with other people. It's not something I do much with video chat, but when I do, Skype is often the best thing to use because of people using Windows. Otherwise one has to boot windows to use MSN messenger or AIM or whatever. But Skype frustrates me because it brings my 2GHz machine with RAM to spare to it's knees. I can hardly run a browser and Skype at the same time, even without video sometimes. And Skype will not longer run on my 700 MHz machine, which has been fun to keep running (it used to work fine). I used to run "Speak Freely" on a dialup 56KB modem talking to a friend and browsing the internet at the same time. Speak Freely let me choose my codec and even change it while I was talking. It even had encryption options which also could be changed while talking. Some of the codecs might have made the voice quality go down, but you could always understand clearly what the other person was saying. So you could not play music over it, so what? Actually you could increase the codec quality if you needed to and had the resources. I have not found a similar tool to Speak Freely that works well. Google chat seems very intense in resources too. On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Loic Duros <loic.duros@gmail.com> wrote: > For video+audio chats has anyone had good results with XMPP? I've switched > from Skype to Jabber (using pidgin) lately but the video was much more > choppy than skype. I've been looking into setting up Prosody > (http://prosody.im/) at home with good hopes, but haven't gotten to it yet. > > Thanks, > > Loic > > -- > Loic J. Duros - http://lduros.net > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> > wrote: >> >> On May 10, 2011 8:45 AM, "Edmond Rodriguez" <erodrig97.list@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > http://www.itworld.com/open-source/163509/microsofts-reported-skype-acquisition-may-impact-linux-users >> > >> >> Imho, the prevalence of Skype is just delaying the rise of SIP-based >> alternatives. I wouldn't mind seeing Skype disappear on linux and android... >> >> Rich >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >> http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug