Steam voice codec quality improved (14/04/11 update)

[Kusuri]

[Renegade]

Probably, yes. Thanks for pointing this out.
After this update, you'll likely need to reconvert your songs to the higher sampling rate, which I believe is 16kHz. We'll know for certain if after this update everyone's audio files start playing back sped-up and high-pitched.

[cebceb44]

Sadly, it doesn't look like hldj can win here. The SILK voice codec does not support loading a voice from file.

There's a command for reverting back to the old voice system, but it is server side, requires admin access, and the command is set to use SILK by default.

[13/F/Jesus]

Please tell me this isn't a bad thing.

[InfernalDemon]

http://www.teamfortress.com/hatless/

Just to let everyone know, TF2 is switching to a new voice codec which may allow for better quality micspam. So we may need to find out the specifics on it and adjust hldj's converter accordingly.

[Renegade]

[Recon]

http://intoxgaming.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=20390
I have devised a tutorial to serve as a temporary replacement for HLDJ until this gets cleared up.


Also, I heard somewhere that the codec does not allow playback from a file. If this is correct... then it may get a little complicated rebounding.

[sanitysama]

[morrowindsky]

[Renegade]

HLDJ generally is an interface between the game and itself. So even if audio playback via voice_inputfromfile doesn't work, any other method that involves an external process can be used/automated through HLDJ, whether it be by starting an external program to play audio or integrating a virtual audio device into HLDJ to stream audio files into the game. The system is there, the only question is time and Implementation (ideally would need to re-implement HLDJ).

[Trar]

You guys ARE going to find a workaround, are you?

[Renegade]

We'll let the dust settle on this update first. Even as it is now, it only applies to one game.

[bobmail]

I think it applies to the games that got updated for instance CSS, HL2DM etc. Since HLDJ suddendly stopped working for me in those games, I tried to reinstall to a newer version without success.

[Trar]

[icekatana8825]