Ventrilo
Ventrilo voice conference is a proprietary software that allows users to communicate over the Internet or a LAN. The program is distributed by Flagship Industries and found mainly parallel to online games application.
Use
Ventrilo was initially mainly used in the USA by professional players, the software now also found in other areas and countries, including in Germany, large dissemination.
Ventrilo has a number of speech codecs of the GSM standard. By the selection of a codec with a correspondingly high data compression rate can be a very low utilization of the available network bandwidth can be achieved. This is important to prevent so-called lag in online games.
History and License
The current version is 3.0.8. To operate, a server is required on the clients can login.
With the release of version 2.1.2 Flagship Industries has changed the software license so that the freeware version of the server up to eight users ( "slots" ) permits the same time. Although Flagship Industries offers the opportunity to purchase a "Pro " license, but this large hosting company is reserved. The award of further Pro licenses is apparently no longer being considered by exclusive contracts with different hosters. Use an older version of the software is a violation of the license agreement.
Similar programs
- TeamSpeak
- Mumble
- Battlecom
- Game Voice