For those of you not wanting to use the likes of Discord for voice-chat, there’s also Mumble which is a free, open source, low latency, high quality voice chat application. It’s been around for a long time and it just had a big new stable release, the first of the Mumble 1.4.x series and it’s been over two years since the last. At least they didn’t leave us waiting ten years again like the 1.3 release huh?
So what’s new? A lot! Of course there’s plenty of bug fixes, security updates and the usual assortment of smaller thing but a few bigger features were also added into this release.
Highlights include:
- Markdown support in chat
- Native support for PipeWire
- A proper plugin system
- Stereo decoding and playback support
- You can set nicknames for users
- An icon to show restricted channels
- A new “TalkingUI” overlay for “non-gamers”
There’s plenty more, be sure to check out the release announcement.
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Why? I wanted to do voice chat (Valheim with a Windows using friend) lately for the first time (yay!). I was "defaulting" to Discord, but in the end wasn't sure why not to use say Telegram or WhatsApp (latency?) or, well, we were two, good old phone line.
What should we use - and why?
That being said mumble is lightweight and offers better configure-ability for voice quality and microphone filters/thresholds than most of the other options. It is simply more focused on the voice chat aspects.
Install the murmur package, modify the config file the way you want it and that's it!
Seriously it's like, nothing is simpler that hosting Mumble server, you don't even need a domain and can use the IP.
edit: WELP -- was able to follow the instructions and just cloned the git and built it myself :thumbsup:
Last edited by Pendragon on 17 January 2022 at 9:50 pm UTC
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At the moment we host the murmur server on a raspberry pi zero with around 15 people. The pi is connected to an ISP modem at a friend's house and it works very well.
The bandwidth used is ridiculously small, the more people you want the more RAM you need and it is basically it…
Last edited by Bogomips on 17 January 2022 at 8:06 pm UTC
It's also easier to do your own server.
Personally used to like team speak.
Ahah dude, as a French, you killed me!
and why would they?
anyway, they are using an browser to render stuff? because not having features like bold support, wtf?
by the UI i think its something like gtk/qt wich will be a waste of time when they try to add more features (reinventing the whell instead of using an browser rendering capabilities).
IMO Mumble is voicechat for gamers without any of Discord's data harvesting, advertising, centralization or other anti-features.
No binary is offered to host a server and, in my book, if you can't run it on bare metal you can't run "your own server". I would be much more inclined to call Discord's instances more appropriately as chatrooms.
I recently got a friend to use it when playing Minecraft, I think he liked it after the initial problems of getting up and running for the first time with a game and voice chat. He was used to running Zoom.
Last edited by AzP on 18 January 2022 at 10:39 am UTC
My point was that for 99.9% of gamers/Clans it's far easier thus why it's so popular.
Just their is the other reason as to why Discord is preferred, Most people don't have a home server. Yes you can use a RPI but I think many forget that most don't have the knowledge or where for all to set up murmur let alone a server.
People forget, 25 odd years ago we would have been seen as super geeks in the eyes of most.