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Originally Posted by Mocker
props to you for doing this, but I have to say...mumble interface better than Vent? I may take you up on this offer just for a tutorial. The Black Company tried to use mumble and found the interface to be completely borked, though we did suspect it had something to do with the host not setting our admin privileges properly.
All in all, good on you for this kind of service.
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I've used actively ventrilo/ts2/mumble and tested ts3 a bit. In my opinion mumble is the most flexible of those three by far. In game overlay for channel users/speakers and volume control for other programs running while someone is speaking on the mumble make it my favourite even over ts3.
If you have issues with admin controls in my mumble server, you can contact me on the IRC (Jazz is my nick in stratics). I'll help gladly.
Since people seem to often have weird presumptions about Mumble, I will list the main features here that make Mumble better than for example Ventrilo.
Pros:
- Better sound quality
- Better echo cancellation
- Possibility to mute/decrease volume on other programs while someone is speaking
- Possibility to add highly customizable in game overlay that can show users/currently speaking users on the channel
- Almost non existent input lag(voice travel time is only limited by actual latency to the server, ventrilo adds around one second input lag, thus it takes longer time to hear what someone said on the other end)
- Ability to use "whisper"(you can talk with alt speak to someone on different channels without others hearing it)
- Channel linking(users on different channels can be set to interact with each other by click of a hotkey)
- Wider possibilities to customize your channels/users with admin tools(ACL)
- Possibility to get rid of all passwords and still have a private channel/server by using certificates
- License free product(much cheaper to host a server)
- Highly customizable user UI and server config
- Easy Setup Wizard for first time user
Cons:
- You cannot set volume for each user separately(there shouldn't be any need for this if a user has done is Setup Wizard correctly. However in rare cases it may not help even if the wizard has been done correctly, mostly with people that have bad quality mics that alter the gain constantly. Personally I've seen only 2 cases so far.)
- Having to learn a new program(takes around 5 minutes for a regular user to do this, admins have to learn a bit more if they want to use all possibilities to control their channels/server)
I could go on with both lists, but those are the main pros/cons I can think of.