Mumble and Teamspeak 3 are both high quality voice over ip programs, but which one is better? We all know that teamspeak is the popular one, but just because it's popular doesnt make it the best Voip. Stability on both seem to be relatively same.
Mumble has a reliable overlay whereas teamspeak 3 will crash in every couple of hours or so for most users. The overlay doesnt even work with some of the video cards and if it does it's seriously glitched or making the game crash itself. Though overlay is not needed if you're playing with close friends because you easily recognize their voices but if you are put together with 20 strangers, it becomes a problem.
If your internet connection is not that great mumble also lowers your voice quality, it might sound a bit robotic but it doesnt break up the connection, like it would in teamspeak. So you dont have to repeat yourself several times.
Speedwise mumble wasn't that great awhile back but now both are equal, mumble being faster about 2 milliseconds.
Mumble
Operating systems - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android
License - BSD
Protocols/based upon/compatible with - CELT / Speex
Encryption - TLS and OCB-AES128
Max conference peers - No max (limited only by server bandwidth and memory)
Other capabilities - Chat with (limited) embedded HTML, Automatic Gain Control, Access Control Lists for user management, Customizable In-Game Overlay, Directional Audio, Plugin Support, Nested Channels, Echo cancellation, Logitech G15 support
TeamSpeak
Operating systems - Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
License - Freeware Closed / Proprietary
Protocols/based upon/compatible with - Speex
Encryption - Yes (Optional)
Max conference peers - Unknown
Other capabilities - Conferencing, File Transfers, Plugin Support, Logitech G15 support, In-Game Overlay
Overall when it comes down to it they are almost the same thing, more bells and whistles in TS3 then Mumble but Mumble was made to me simplistic anyways and if your friends are already on TS3 it's hard to switch over to Mumble.
I prefer Mumble! No delay, no lag...
ReplyDeleteI prefer TeamSpeak over Mumble because of managing system. Quality is similar, you will probably see no difference. Also, you can add overlay in both programs:)
ReplyDeletenever heared about mummble before, now i'll give it a try.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea what these were, until I read your post. I guess Teamspeak is more popular, but Mumble is better.
ReplyDeleteYou say that mumble is made to be simple and there are more bells and whistles in TS3 than Mumble, but you list 3x+ more things under Mumble capabilities than TS3, not to mention that Mumble works on more platforms, more protocols, etc.
ReplyDeletemost of the stuf listed under mumble are in ts3
ReplyDeleteTs3 got like 100 more functions than Mumble and everything you listed that Mumble got, Ts3 also got.
ReplyDeleteTeamspeak is simply better. If you got bad internet connection you can lower your quality on Teamspeak aswell.
And the time when you wanted Ventrilo or other programs like Mumble because its simple and dont take much memory or cpu was around 2001 :P nowdays any computer runs voip like TS3 without any problems at all.
For those who dont mind having their computer running all night with a VOIP server then Vent and TS is maybe the best choices, but for those who dont want their computer running all night cant always choose which VOIP progrma to use... Ive got a server with a ARM cpu and neither Teamspeak or Ventrilo server works with an ARM cpu. So I hope that Mumble can deliver what TS or Vent cant... Will test later if Mumble is the VOIP for me :)
ReplyDeletemumble sucks, just anoying, and sounds like a kids candy
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