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Hey all, I'm not sure whether this should go in Multiplayer and Network Programming or in Alternative Game Libraries, so my apologies if it's miscategorized. I'm helping to develop a serious (non-entertainment) game, a training application that involves modeling contacting other players via phone and radio. We're hoping to find some nice straightforward open-source Voice over IP library that we can drop in for easy use. I've been tasked with getting the VoIP functionality working. I've done a little bit of poking around, and I've found this nice list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software ...and the only section that seems applicable is the "Frameworks and libraries" section, so naturally I'm looking at Tapioca and Telepathy/Farsight...but I'm not totally sure what I'm looking at, and whether it's directly applicable for the kind of purposes I have. I don't really need 3D positional audio (at this time, anyway); I just need to be able to fetch audio from a microphone, send it over a network, and play it on the other side, and to be able to control when and to whom this is done. My development and test platform is a Windows PC, though staying cross-platform is ideal. Has anyone here ever incorporated VoIP into a game, not merely on the end-user side, but integrating it as part of the application proper? Do you have any recommendations for someone in my position? (BTW, someone on the official GameDev.net IRC channel mentioned I should come here and ask the moderator of this forum, hplus0603. They indicated you're some sort of expert or something. :) Hear my cries, oh mod!)
