nicod3mus
27-03-2007, 21:05
I have been a TS advocate for as long as its been around but it's a dark day over here as we uninstalled TS for something with acceptable quality codecs. I began asking for codecs over 2years ago on these boards and every time anyone mentioned it you got "TS3" flamed to death. The codecs were sub par then (2005) and they are barely usable now.
I hate to do it but frankly I have waited as long as I'm going to wait. An optional codec pack was not asking too much regardless of what anyone of the team or fanbois here say. I donated to TS more than once and had links on my sites for years so I'm afraid the "then donate" response won't fly either.
Although I never advocated TS going open source the fact that it isn't also hinders it's development. We would have built a codec pack for TS if we could have been provided the proper information but again, this is did not happen.
If you look at the GSM 44k codec in Vent you might think or its not even twice as good as the speex 25.9k, not true. The GSM codec is a better codec to begin with. At the same bitrate it sounds better so at 44k it sounds (as anyone who have ever used it) much better. Vent's handicap was it's bandwidth amd resource usage. As computers and average Internet connections have improved vastly over the years the strain is no longer even visible to most users so the original reason most people started using TS no longer exists.
In short you dropped the ball and even old school die hards who have integrated tons of apps with TS and ran servers for years are leaving. All the "we are working on it" rhetoric is just that. All you had to do was put out a codec pack......A place that a codec pack (a 44Khz codec at that) takes years to develop sounds like a place I should apply.
I hate to do it but frankly I have waited as long as I'm going to wait. An optional codec pack was not asking too much regardless of what anyone of the team or fanbois here say. I donated to TS more than once and had links on my sites for years so I'm afraid the "then donate" response won't fly either.
Although I never advocated TS going open source the fact that it isn't also hinders it's development. We would have built a codec pack for TS if we could have been provided the proper information but again, this is did not happen.
If you look at the GSM 44k codec in Vent you might think or its not even twice as good as the speex 25.9k, not true. The GSM codec is a better codec to begin with. At the same bitrate it sounds better so at 44k it sounds (as anyone who have ever used it) much better. Vent's handicap was it's bandwidth amd resource usage. As computers and average Internet connections have improved vastly over the years the strain is no longer even visible to most users so the original reason most people started using TS no longer exists.
In short you dropped the ball and even old school die hards who have integrated tons of apps with TS and ran servers for years are leaving. All the "we are working on it" rhetoric is just that. All you had to do was put out a codec pack......A place that a codec pack (a 44Khz codec at that) takes years to develop sounds like a place I should apply.