20Aug Ventrilo Freeware

Have You ever heard about Ventrilo? Ventrilo is a proprietary Voice over Internet Protocol program with clients for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Most users of Ventrilo use a headset or microphone and use the program to talk to each other, similar to a telephone conference call. Ventrilo is often used by multiplayer video game players. Users install the Ventrilo client and connect to a Ventrilo server. The Ventrilo client is released as freeware and is available for Microsoft Windows and for Mac OS X, and future support is planned for operating systems based on the Linux kernel. The server, under a restrictive license, is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux as well as Kopi, Solaris, NetBSD and FreeBSD. Although there is no client version for Linux, it can be used with Wine.

The Ventrilo developers have attempted to keep its bandwidth to a minimum but users with a low-bandwidth dial-up connection may still find themselves restricted to using low quality settings. Making so they can encourage more and more ventrilo servers and hence they would have a list from which a person can choose which Ventrilo host to join. Ventrilo is also used as a call-in method on radio shows, and for general voice-chat. The quality of the speech depends on the users’ sound cards and microphones and the codec selected by the administrator. It also depends on the quality of the host’s Internet connection.