Vote for voice protocol documentation (was: Re: [sldev] SLDev-Traffic #24)

[Callum Lerwick]

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 15:15 -0700, John Hurliman wrote:
> Also, can we move the voice discussion beyond bringing up Speex or other 
> free codecs until someone can prove that these will actually work with 
> Vivox servers?

I don't see why this is a showstopper. If it doesn't work, they can make
it work. Isn't the whole point of happy little standards like SIP that
they're decoupled from the codec?

> Linden Labs did not write the voice code, they don't own 
> any of the patents, and they don't run any of the VoIP servers. Asking 
> them to switch to brand X isn't going to accomplish anything.

We're not demanding LL dump Vivox, if that's what you mean by this.
We're asking for a workable open source solution, whatever that may
take. That means either switching codecs, or an open patent license.

>  3D positional algorithms from DiamondWare

Uhhh, what exactly did DiamondWare do? They seem rather proud of
themselves, but isn't the voice thingy using OpenAL? You give XYZ
coordinates to OpenAL, and wowie zowie its a revolution! They're
geniuses! Vivox totally got played if they actually paid for this.
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