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GPL & internet telephony (a bit long)

5 posts by 5 people · 08 Apr 1999 - 10 Apr 1999

Hi all A friend and I thought it would be cool to be able to talk to each other during races, so we both downloaded MediaRing Talk 99. This works great and is free. He's in South africa and I'm in England. The voice quality is excellent. However when I start GPL or any other program my microphone stops working (for the phone call, it still comes through my speakers). i get it back if we remake the call but of course you can't do that from within GPL. Any bright ideas as to what might be causing this and any suggested fix would be gratefully received. Any alternative method of achieving a "radio" link would also interest me. More clues: My soundcard is SBLive Value, his is SB AWE64 Gold. I can always hear him, even when I go into GPL. We did get it to work once, by forcing half-duplex operation when the phone call was already connected, but he then had to race GPL with no game sound (I had game sound). Half duplex is no solution because you have to click on a button to talk. Hope this is of interest to some boffin out there! Thanks Tim
Erik Orderu 08 Apr 1999#460859
Hey Tim. I had the same problem with a friend too, SB live my end and ultrasound pnp other end , tryed lots of things but maybe SB live both ends does it. Erik.
Goy Larsen 08 Apr 1999#460861
> Hey Tim. > I had the same problem with a friend too, SB live my end and ultrasound pnp > other end , tryed lots of things but maybe SB live both ends does it. > Erik. Yeah right, guess you and JoHS will never get to try it then, I can't see him dumping his beloved Gravis Ultrasound in favour of a Live card :-) -- Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/ "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/
Ralph Kara 10 Apr 1999#461265
Try Battlecom. It works very well however you will need to turn down the volume for game sounds Otherwise the wonderful ROAR of the engines will drown out conversation. BC works with all full duplex cars wich the AWE64 should be. My humble opinion www.battlecom.com Dingo

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