Ebay to sell Skype to investment group?
There are several reports that Ebay, Skype's parent company, is likely to sell the Skype service to an investment group. In addition, Skype and the company that licences the technology that is used in the software are in a patent and licensing dispute. As a result the future of Skype as a tool for transferring audio to and rom a remote base site is in question.
As many of you already know, Skype version 4.x is incompatible with the current version of the IRB software due to changes in the Skype programmer interface. I'm going to hold any work on the IRB software as far as the Skype problem is concerned until the legal and company sale questions are resolved. Other work on the software will continue however including bug fixes and possibly new features and the ability to control additional models of radios.
Bob Arnold N2JEU
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Alternative Sound transfer software.
Hi.
Many of us are also using IP-Sound (by SM5VXC) for the audio link. Full duplex, good quality, and with some compression (if you want it) and not relying on intermediate servers, or using your PC as a VOIP proxy ("Skype Supernode") without your permission!
There was even a version that had some remote control (via virtual com ports) abilities, but that got trumped by HRD.
IP-Sound is now unsupported by it's author, but could a "deal be done" for the greater ham good?
Sadly, SM5VXC has retreated from view it seems. But I have somewhere the original Open Source (C code) for what it was based on, if that could be of help.
Cheers.
Dave G0WBX.
Another alternative
Given that IRB is written in VB, the audio streaming components made by Lake of Soft http://lakeofsoft.com/ would probably be a good solution, or at least an easy one to incorporate. Trouble is, hams want everything for free and like most professional software this needs to be paid for.
Julian, G4ILO
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