[sldev] Re: Vote for voice protocol documentation

[Adam Frisby]

DiamondWare is a bit more than that. Yes you can do spatial audio in 
OpenAL / DirectAudio fairly easily - but the part about DiamondWare is 
that it handles projectional sources rather than just simple 'point 
emitters'.

I believe that's the key part to what they are offering, that and 
possibly scale / speed.

Adam

Callum Lerwick wrote:

> 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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