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Troubleshooting Macintosh Audio |
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Macintosh CU-SeeMe Audio
The CU-SeeMe client lets you transmit audio along with video. Transmitting audio requires significant bandwidth, so you may not be satisfied with what you can squeeze over a 28.8 kbps modem. CU-SeeMe for Macintosh has Charley Kline's (kline@uiuc.edu) Maven code integrated into it.
Answer: Larry Chace of CU has uttered some wise words on this issue on the "QuickCam CU-SeeMe Audio" page.
Answer: This is true using SLIP and PPP, so changing protocols won't help.
Maven is pretty hopeless because currently it requires about 32 kbps. What's being sent is already highly compressed, so it's unlikely that modem-level compression will help. At 14.4 kpbs you're going to get less than half of the segments, which is unintelligible. Charley may be able to get one of the more ferocious compression methods going and get down to 10 kbps or there-abouts in the future, at the expense of needing a fast processor to do the encoding and decoding.
Answer: "ISDN", which will give you 56 kbps (minimum) to 128 kbps (maximum) will be able to handle sound gracefully.
Answer: Yes. Pre-MacOS 7.5 users should get the current version of the Sound Manager. Without it you'll get annoying clicking during sound output, and your Mac will run very, very slowly while you're receiving audio.
Answer: (Cultural note: "maven" means "knowledgeable person" in Yiddish.) On the Maven discussion list, noted on the "CU-SeeMe Discussion Lists" page.
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