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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Started conversation Feb 10, 2003
I've been trying to connect to a voice room, however I'm told my system doesn't support it. Has anyone else had this problem. What can I do to overcome it. Is there some software I need to get? I've OS10.2.
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Feb 22, 2003
Hmm - no-one out there. *talks to self* The voice/video room I want to connect to requires IE6 which is only available for Windows. Curses.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 22, 2003
Weird - I'm subscribed for new conversations here, but I never saw this one! 
Not that I could have been any help anyway... 
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Mar 22, 2003
Hi Peet,
I sorted it out by getting Virtual PC in the end. However, when I speak over a microphone, the other person gets a slightly garbled voice. It may be because I don't have enough RAM. I'm going to get some more and see if the situation improves. 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 22, 2003
Can you define "garbled" a little... If you record a sound sample locally with the same microphone settings does it sound OK? If it comes back really loud, sounding like a bumble bee farting inside a tin can, (I speak from experience 
) then you're using a high-level (powered) microphone in a low-level (dynamic) input. In that case, either turning the input level down to about 10%, or getting an "in-line attenuator" (the better quality of the two options) will fix it. 
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Mar 22, 2003
Ooh! Technical speak. I've not heard what it sounds like here, as I turned off the sound. I had a friend here with his computer on, so I heard what it sounded like on his. What seemed to be happening was that it was sort of repeating itself. Does that make sense?
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- 1: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Feb 10, 2003)
- 2: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Feb 22, 2003)
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- 4: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Mar 22, 2003)
- 5: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 22, 2003)
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