TeamSpeak Systems GmbH - (Non-Commercial Freeware)
Communication in a gaming network team is important and for that many softwares were developed but TeamSpeak is a must since it is very flexible offering may configuration options.
TeamSpeak is a program that allows communication between multiple users connected to the same server. The application is designed to run in the background and is particularly useful in network games. The quality of the transmission and bandwidth can be configured according to the available connection.
The program is optimized for conversations in large numbers ( up to 16 by default). To prevent the arrival of unwanted pranksters, user will be able to protect his "channel" with a password. If user has permission, he can also "kick" troublemakers.
A minimum latency is received in the transmission of voice but there are codecs used to reduce the latency for communication and improve the voice quality. It is perfect for online players to send instructions or information to others.
3D effects are integrated to enhance or change the sound of the voice. The sound may be moved in a three dimensional space. For an online conference, this option helps to further establish the position of all players on a virtual table.
- Updated CELT codec. Due to codec bitstream incompatibility you can only communicate with new clients in channels using the CELT codec. Old clients will either sound weird/corrupt, or (on newer servers) will not be heard.
- Increased plugin API version to 11
- Style authors should adjust SERVER_PORT in their serverinfo.tpl, see the existing template within the default style.
- Removed fmod sound system
- Added a new default sound pack
- Added new "easy permission" dialogue for easier configuration of permissions
- Added text format toolbar and WYSIWYG edit mode to channel description tear-off editor.
- Added TSDNS support, see documentation on the TSDNS server release, which is bundled with future TS server releases. Connecting to servers for the first time via hostname can be slower than before in some circumstances.
- Added delay of one second to server-side client search in "All clients" dialog before search can be used again to avoid spamming the server.
- Added horizontal scrollbars to channel group dialogs
- Added dialog to manage server subscription modes to Options - Applications
- Removed option "Show smilies", now every chat context menu sets globally.
- Added hotkey "Stylesheet helper" which helps us and stylesheet authors to show the needed information from under cursor widget. Additionally it will set the given stylesheet e.g. background: blue; for highlight.
- Added "F1" keyboard shortcut to open permissions help window.
- To avoid confusion, a notice in the advanced permissions tree informs the the user when b_client_skip_channelgroup_permissions is enabled.
- Added information dialog when voice activation detection changes to Push-to-talk or vice versa due to b_client_force_push_to_talk.
- Added button to chat options page to change chat default font.
- TTS (Text To Speech) on Windows now uses the correct playback device.
- TTS (Text To Speech) volume on Windows can now be adjusted via playback sound pack volume slider.
- Channel create/edit dialog now allows to set some channel specific permission
- Added option to virtual server dialog to disable weblist reporting
- In filetransfer view, a slot and speed limitation can be set directly. The minimum speed limit is at least 5 KiB.
- Fixed making a passworded channel to default channel. Note: If a channel was made to a default channel it cannot just be switched back. Make another channel default instead - see also tooltip.
- Showing information message when trying to delete the default channel.
- Updated to Qt 4.7.2
- Playback options: Voice volume slider now requires a click to "Apply", so both sliders now behave identical.
- Overhauled ban dialogs.
- Overhauled webserver list layout.
- Print more detailed message when a channel/client/server icon wasn't found.
- Testing voice in the capture device option page will now use the default playback profile instead of the currently selected profile.
- Capture Mode and -Device can be changed during an active voice test.
- Hoster button now works with php scripts serving images, it is not longer required to directly link to image files. link to image files
- The file transfer bandwidth limit takes influence of the available slots.Each slot should have at least 5 KiB/s, 2 slots 10 KiB/s etc.
- Updated layout of channel settings dialog
- Capture- and Playback devices will be checked for validity and existence on device change or when the connection is initiated.
- "Start/Stop rotation" have been removed from 3D item context menu entries.
- The invitation dialog will be closed when client gets disconnected.
- Glance button no longer toggles global option, instead toggle the subscribe subscribe state for individual server tabs. State is saved and restored per server unique id over client restart.
- Removed option "Mute microphone when locking", now always active.
- Enabled text chat to ServerQuery clients. Inform user that a ServerQuery needs to register for private text messages to receive private chats.
- To reduce server load, when applying easy permissions send all permissions in one step. This makes marking UI elements red when the permissions could not be applied unfortunately impossible, so this feature was removed for now.
- Show only one permissions help window per permissions dialog, not one per tab
- Implemented more Lua functions, see testmodule/demo.lua. Lua plugin now registers for plugin commands so they can be used from Lua scripts.
- More/Less button state saved and restored for connect, bookmarks and virtual server edit dialogs.
- Plugin filename suffixes are removed for pluginCommand usage. Currently removed suffixes are: _win32, _win64, _linux_x86, _linux_amd64, _x86, _amd64,_32, _64, _mac, _i386, _ppc
- Added settings dialog to Lua plugin to allow enabling or disabling Lua script modules, replacing the old mechanism with the text file in the Lua plugin directory.
- "/lua run <function>" now supports running functions from modules using "/lua run <module>.<function>". Adjusted testmodule to the new beheaviour.
- Port fields removed from connect and bookmark dialogs. Instead the syntax
* <hostname>:<port> is used.
- Overhauled permissions help widget
- Display in client info frame if a channel group was inherited from an upper channel.
- Clients contextmenu offers to set inherited channel groups if applicable on current subchannel.
- Overhauled appscanner plugin settings
- Overhauled contextmenus in permissions window
- Adjusted eliding channel names in sort-after dropdown box in channel edit dialog
- Overhauled context menus in filetransfer view
- URL Catcher only writes new captured URLs on client quit
- Added tooltip help texts when creating channel spacer
- Allow drag&drop from clients list into client permission lineedit
- Removed now unused callback onVoiceRecordDataEvent from plugin API
- Serverconnectioninfo window remembers position
- Fixed client lag when renaming contacts in huge contact list
- Setup wizard overhauled
- Fixed possible assertion on incoming chats.
- Virtual server weblist checkbox disabled on missing permission on newer servers.
- Fixed possible crash in G15 plugin when pressing the "Chan" button while disconnected.
- Fixed VolumeControl plugin to close settings dialog when deactivating plugin via hotkey.
- Fixed that an unchecked transfer speed limit means unlimited.
- Fixed server tabs not switching playback/capture devices properly when only the mode was changed.
- Fixed appscanner plugin handling client data when server was restarted.
- Calling plugin functions requestFileList and requestPermissionOverview no longer open the FileBrowser or PermissionOverview dialogs within the client. Added returnCode parameter to onFileListEvent and onPermissionOverviewEvent, so plugins can also check if the callbacks were caused by an own request.
- "Test Voice" stops as soon as the microphone will be activated
- Fixed subscribe-all freezing the client for several seconds on big servers.
- Playing notifications test sound now uses the TS3 default playback profile instead of the system default device and uses the wave file volume modifier.
- Remember selected item in notifications tree when switching sound packs.
- Fixed default settings for contacts manager being saved to wrong config file.
- Fixed disconnect not stopping autoreconnect properly during IP lookup.
- Fixed caught URLs "times mentioned" numeric sorting.
- The whisper history context menu got a few more entries.
- Fixed an offline message issue when a contact changed his nickname while typing an offline message.
- Fixed using "one time privilege key" after improving security level when connecting to server.
- Fixed that channel chat tab name could be wrong after reconnect.
- Fixed several widget height issues on netbooks.
- Limit amount of remembered client log messages to 500.
- Fixed client log view losing text format when clicking the Clear button.
- Don't open chat tab on double-click for ServerQuery clients.
- Fixed showing Device-Changed-Notification when playback or capture mode has been reset to default during sound system convertion.
- Automatically select top group after deleting a server- or channelgroup
- Fixed hotkey when editing/renaming "switch to channel", reported by user in forum
- Channel spacer weren't shown in "switch to channel" list.
- Fixed bad apply/discard check on Options Download page, which always reported to have changed with an empty config file.
- To resolve issues with some webservers, no longer append ?suid=<server uid> to banner URLs.
- Fixed reloading privilege key list after creating invitation.
- Fixed virtualserver edit dialog having "Banner gfx URL" and "URL" fields in wrong order.
- Double-click on Grant column in advanced permission tree will add the grant permission instead of the normal permission if permission was assigned yet.
- Check matching client unique identifier when opening a contextmenu from chat.
- Fixed playing connected sound after dialog about unfinished filetransfer was closed.
- Removed showing "???" when download gets larger than listed. For example,when resuming an upload, while another one is downloading.
- Fixed notifications test sounds not playing when playback device was set to "Automatically use best mode" and "Default" device.
- Activating capture device of the server tab which previously owned the capture device when applying capture options, instead of activating the most-right server tab.
- Disable chat tabs when autoreconnecting after server connection was lost.
- Don't disable chat input field anymore when the chat partner is not connected to ensure offline messages can be sent and the chat text can be still accessed.
- When a client with an active chat tab disconnects and another visible client with the same client unique ID is available, reassign the chat tab to the other client ID to continue the chat.
- When continuing to chat with the same client UID after reconnecting to another server, reusing the existing chat tab.
- Fixed that a filetransfer hangs in waiting status, when file is in use.
- Return key to enter a channel will now ignore autorepeat, so the action triggers only once when the key is pressed down.
- Fixed filetransfer context menu "open folder" on queue item.
- Fixed showing "Transfer Completed" as tray message when cancelled.
- Fixed an issue when download contains subfolders
- Don't show the "ID not found" dialog when adding a client to a server- or channelgroup fails on insufficient permissions error.
- Adjusted search behaviour for permissions to find both the permission name and description, independent of which of them is currently displayed.
- Group sort ID now used in comboboxes in whisper and privilege key dialogs.
- Fixed printMessage plugin function with channel target.
- Couple of filetransfer fixes like: progress sorting, up-/download texts,filetransfer view show once...
- Fixed that playback- and capture devices only were checked when connected
- Fixed that context menu on user in channel groups appears twice
- Default font family for chat was shown wrong.
- Fixed displaying ":0" when connecting to IP.
- Fixed possible crash when autoreconnecting on a server which was previously connected to using an IP.
- Fixed password parameter when inviting a buddy
- Fixed no more triggering close/reopen capture devices when just changing PreProcessorConfigValues like voice activation state, echo cancelling etc.
- Fixed playing sound "file transfer complete" when canceling while using bandwidth limiter.
- No custom contextmenu when clicking on Windows titlebar
- Fixed language selection box in application options page
- Fixed showing the creation date of files in file transfer overwrite dialog.
- Added selection page for overlay and volumecontrol plugins to setup wizard,added check to open bookmarks/serverlist/Get own server webpage to lastwizard page.
- Ignore ts3file:// links in URLCatcher
- If the currently used capture profile gets deleted, the default capture profile will be set on all connected servers using this profile.
- Fixed display of newly downloaded icons in icon viewer