Web site: www.mangler.org
Category: Network
Subcategory: VoIP Clients
Platform: Linux, Windows, Android
License: GNU GPL
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia:
First release: 2009
Mangler – an open source VOIP client capable of connecting to Ventrilo 3.x servers. It is capable of performing almost all standard user functionality found in a Windows Ventrilo client.
It is 100% open source alternatives to Ventrilo. Mangler exists to bridge the gap for people who don’t have that choice. Ventrilo is the de facto standard for guild/clan conversation and Linux doesn’t have an implementation. The official Ventrilo client for Linux has been “in development” since 2005.
Reasons you should use Mumble:
– The server is free and does not have any of the bizarre limitations of Ventrilo servers
– It’s open source and is actively developed for all major platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux). iPhone and Android clients are currently in development
– It is truly low latency. Compared to Mumble, Ventrilo’s latency is astronomical
– The CELT codec is far superior to both speex and GSM
– Mumble does not have a forced call-home check.
– The Ventrilo network protocol itself is atrocious. It looks like it was written as a bad highschool programming project.
