[Opensim-dev] Voice Module

[Jani Pirkola]

Hi,

I totally agree with you Sean, the voice should be separated from the
server. The realXtend voice code is only the first version.
The best model could be that the clients do direct UDP communication and the
server only manages the NAT firewall bypassing initially. I don't know how
skype works, but I assume it is something like this.

Jani Pirkola/realXtend

2008/2/27, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net>:
>
> I've spent a little bit of time looking at the Voice Module that just
> got moved into trunk from the RealXtend branch, and I think it's headed
> in the wrong direction.
>
> Embedding voice in the simulator seems like the wrong direction, and
> much less modular than we were heading for.  Plus, I think that under
> any reasonable load, it's going to go useless *real fast*.  Given that
> chat messages can often take 30 seconds in a loaded message, nothing
> like voice really belongs there.
>
> I think a much better approach would be to carve off voice functionality
> into a seperate VoiceServer, which would let it run on a dedicated
> machine, ensuring low latency.  I also think that the SLVoice approach
> of sending all the streams to the client and letting the client do the
> mixing is a better load approach.
>
> Perhaps a hybrid model where after significant avatar moves avatar
> possitions were sent to the Voice Server, so that you don't have the
> issue where your ears can be fully devoid of your camera, would be
> best.  But at the end of the day doing mixing on the server just seems
> wrong.  Even skype offloads this to clients to do.
>
>      -Sean
>
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