Still closed source proprietary software, but good for them.
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Team speak? What year is it?
I remember hosting a teamspeak server for folks I played Wolfenstein: ET with. In the early 2000's.
Next week, let's bring back Ventrilo!
I'm still stuck on Mumble.
Mumble is great for VC tbh, doesn't really do anything else well though but I use it for VC
I was just thinking about xFire the other day, randomly. Maybe it's a sign!
Jesus, it's like !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de: MFs will really do anything to avoid switching to an alternative that's actually Free Software.
Is there a free software with voice chat and screen sharing? I am searching for one.
Matrix has VC, but not sure about screen sharing.
I think Jitsi Meet can do screen sharing, but that's a separate platform from Matrix dedicated to video calls, although I think Matrix clients can integrate with it IIRC.
I will definitely check out jitsi. Thanks man!
Element call (Matrix) has screen share, Signal does as well.
Apparently it doesn't really support audio with screen sharing. I do want to share the audio as well so i can watch youtube and stremio with friends
I havent tried it myself so I can't verify but is this the same problem/situation in this github issue?
https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/issues/3142
If it is someone supposedly posted a solution.
This seems very promising. It's a self hosted discord. Basically exactly what I was searching for. It looks like it's a bit buggy for now but I will test it when I get home.
That looks interesting, and since it's licensed under GPL I do genuinely hope it's successful,
It'll have to prove that it can eventually scale at least as well as the battle proven XMPP protocol (apparently the main Fluxer server is already experiencing lag from the sudden growth its gotten after the discord announcement). And it'll be competing with the Movim XMPP client (which may reach feature parity with Fluxer soon). But I do wish the dev luck. They seem pretty chill, and with more contributors, I could see it taking on Discord.
The new element call has both but has not been implemented in all clients yet
Movim (XMPP client) can, though I'm unsure if it streams application audio when screensharing.
Having tried it:
Voice chat is flawless
Video chat/streaming is arguably better than discord*
Text chat leaves a LOT to be desired. Its there, I guess.
*on linux YMMV
Have they released the server parts of TS6 yet? Last I checked, it wasn't available on the download page.
Reading their site has me a little confused. Do you have to pay to rent a server if all you want to do is make a group to voice chat with a few friends?
That’s how the internet used to work, back before investor money came in and made operating at an insane loss a valid way to run a business. To avoid it you could self-host, which usually involved some networking knowledge.
That or skype
My understanding is that you have to pay a software license to access the server software, then you have to figure out where and how to host that server yourself.
The client is free.
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