[sldev] VWR-10311 Enabling lip sync by default

[Black Hat Design]

I agree that Lip Sync be moved out of Beta. It does a fairly decent job when
voice actually works. Unfortunately residents are suffering many voice
issues now (http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-12487) and these are no
longer triaged as they appear to be third party issues. I have not had much
luck in getting answers from Vivox on the issues currently plaguing SL
residents. I am led to believe that the issue is arising out of a conflict
with the new SDK which was introduced in RC9 of the current release running
alongside the old SDK which many residents are still running since there is
no mandatory update to the viewer at this time.

Currently, if you want stable voice, you can run the old client and suffer
through many of the bugs that are fixed in the current version, or you can
run the new client and go back to using Skype and a stream for inworld
conferences.

Being that Vivox has not been responsive to inquiries, I am curious as to
whether there has been some deterioration in the relationship between Linden
Lab and Vivox.

Dirk Talamasca
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Edited subject.

There's enough information to display green waves of appropriate
intensity above each speaking avatar. That same information can't be
used to control which avatars move their mouths?

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Kakurady Drakenar <kakurady at gmail.com>
wrote:
> It doesn't do what it's supposed to do, that is accurate lip-synching for
> all avatars. All it does is babbling for your own avatar, and all other
> avatars at the same time when even only one of them talks, because of the
> limitations of Vivox's voice architecture.
>
> Now, if there's a way to have user aware of that caveat, I have nothing
else
> to worry on this issue.
>
> GCat/Kakur
>
> (To Moriz: Sorry for the duplicate, I forgot to choose "reply to all".)
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Moriz Gupte <moriz.gupte at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> I also vote for taking lipsynch out of beta. I use it all the time but
>> have to waste some time telling new users how to enable it. extremely low
>> client side CPU footprint + does what it is supposed to, no reason not to
>> move it out of beta IMHO.
>> R
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Mike Monkowski <monkowsk at watson.ibm.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to see http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-10311 implemented.
>>>  It's a trivial change. If it requires any shepherding, I'll do it.  I
>>> think it would be appropriate for an "open source" viewer.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> Mm Alder
>>>
>>> Rob Lanphier wrote:
>>> > So, are there other patches in JIRA that seem worthy of making it in
>>> > before the first merge window, and are there volunteers to shepherd
>>> > those patches through?
>>> _______________________________________________