Vent sound quality.

[squeecky]

Everybody sounds like SHIT, Is it just me or is this in general? Mainly Felix, Chris and Rawr to name a few, So can anybody tell me.. Is it my vent settings or Laptop, or their mic?

 

[Zaubermuffin]

This wouldn't have happened with TS3.

Except the few persons that really have shitty microphones. If it happens with everybody, it's either Vent or you. If it doesn't happen with, for example TS3, it's most likely Vent.

 

[Nicco]

yeah, vent is generally pretty poor for QOS, but quite a few people do just have shit mics.

 

[squeecky]

Danké

 

[Steve]

So, why aren't we using TS3 yet? The client is vastly superior to Ventrilo in every single way.

I can't think of one single thing Vent does that TeamSpeak doesn't do better. 3D positioning, much easier user-by-user volume settings (right-click, miscellaneous, special effects, volume, add special effect, okay can go FUCK ITSELF), global and channel chat that isn't "opt-in" and actual hyperlinks (right-click, miscellaneous, copy comment, alt-tab to Firefox, ctrl-v, enter can go FUCK ITSELF), and most importantly its voice activation works flawlessly whereas Ventrilo's is a horrible piece of trash garbage -- it's flaky as shit, it has no visual volume meter, it has no obvious way to get your peak volume when you speak vs when you breathe, and I still cannot figure out whether the generic "mic sensitivity" setting has a direct or an inverse relationship to actual mic sensitivity. Whereas I had absolutely no trouble getting it configured on TeamSpeak and it worked every time, instead of picking up every single breath I take yet failing to notice my fucking voice.

tl;dr: Ventrilo is a user-unfriendly dinosaur of a VOIP client that needs to fucking die and TS3 is superior in every conceivable way

 

[Zaubermuffin]

One thing that I always heard back with TS2 was that Ventrillo had less latency than TS2. Seeing that we are not really playing shooter games where every millisecond counts and most people have pings over 50 anyway I don't see a reason to be a lantencywhore.

 

[Steve]

Yeah, but Vent's client is still awful.

 

[Jareh]

Not that bad once you're used to it, tbh.

 

[Steve]

People get used to having their legs sawed off, too. >:|

e: Never mind, I thought you were talking about the Vent client.

 

[Jareh]

I don't see how people can whine over sound quality on Ventrilo. There hasn't been any problems with it all this time, and now suddenly it's shite 'cos the cool kids use TS3?

 

[Zaubermuffin]

Perhaps people finally bought a new headset and are now actually able to tell the difference.

I, for one, welcome our new TS3 overlord.

 

[Oracle]

One thing that I always heard back with TS2 was that Ventrillo had less latency than TS2. Seeing that we are not really playing shooter games where every millisecond counts and most people have pings over 50 anyway I don't see a reason to be a lantencywhore.

Yep, very true. Its why people left for Vent in the first place. But now? TS3 is better in alot of ways. The masses are going for TS3 for a reason.

I don't see how people can whine over sound quality on Ventrilo. There hasn't been any problems with it all this time, and now suddenly it's shite 'cos the cool kids use TS3?

No, it has always been shit. It was just a better alternative compared to TS2, years ago, that is.

Its like refusing to upgrade to Windows 7 from a Windows 2000 machine thats damn well capable of running Windows 7.

 

[ShadowDragon]

Its like refusing to upgrade to Windows 7 from a Windows 2000 machine thats damn well capable of running Windows 7.

There are some people whom do so. LET'S COMPARE NT TO THE NEW SYSTEM ANYWAYS.
XP platform is only capable of handling 3GB RAM, DirectX 9, etc.
I am cool amirite :3

 

[Jareh]

No, it has always been shit. It was just a better alternative compared to TS2, years ago, that is.

Its like refusing to upgrade to Windows 7 from a Windows 2000 machine thats damn well capable of running Windows 7.

Yeah, lets compare operating systems with VoIP programs.

Why fix something that isn't broken?

 

[Zaubermuffin]

Why fix something that isn't broken?

Exactly my thoughts! Why are we wearing clothes when we could wear fur, why are we living in houses when we could live in caves? It's so stupid!

 

[Jareh]

WHY DRIVE ANOTHER CAR WHEN THE CAR YOU DRIVE DRIVES BETTER THAN THE CAR PEOPLE TELL YOU TO

btw one of them is a prius the other is a mustang

??? logic ok

 

[squeecky]

I don't have a music bot on TS3. And TS3 is Generally too quiet for me. But quality of mic is better, yes.

 

[Zaubermuffin]

You can tune the volume in TS3, hell, you can even set it per-player.