{"id":601,"date":"2007-11-14T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2007\/11\/14\/voice-chat-for-second-life-linux-clien"},"modified":"2007-11-14T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T15:41:44","slug":"voice-chat-for-second-life-linux-client-still-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2007\/11\/14\/voice-chat-for-second-life-linux-client-still-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Chat for Second Life Linux client still not working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis past Saturday I tried checking out the Second Life version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tlug.jp\/wiki\/Meetings:2007:11\">November TLUG Meeting<\/a> due to some previous obligations barring me from attending in person.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo I went through the rigmarole of installing Second Life on my Linux machine at home and getting it configured to work properly with these things called <a href=\"http:\/\/slurl.com\/\">SLurls<\/a> which seem to be some way to handle URLs that can send you directly to a location in Second Life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxforums.org\/forum\/gaming-games-multimedia-entertainment\/104105-how-firefox-calls-secondlife-slurls.html\">This HOWTO<\/a> was awfully handy in configuring Firefox.  (You need to play with the <em>about:<\/em> URL) So now I&#8217;m all ready to listen in on the conversation and run into <a href=\"https:\/\/jira.secondlife.com\/browse\/VWR-210\">this bug<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBasically, voice chat won&#8217;t work under Linux at this point in time.  So I was basically having my avatar hang out in this room with some occasional text messages coming by with other people complaining about the sound.  But I had zero sound&#8230; wonderful.   I quickly disconnected since there are better things to do than watch a virtual presentation with virtually no sound.  Bleh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday I tried checking out the Second Life version of the November TLUG Meeting due to some previous obligations barring me from attending in person. So I went through the rigmarole of installing Second Life on my Linux machine at home and getting it configured to work properly with these things called SLurls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1215,1100,1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripe","category-linux","category-stupid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}