I have searched the internet everywhere and could not find any place that had a real comparison of Teamspeak and Ventrilo. I'm not talking about people just saying "oh I like x better". You can find millions of that online. What I'm talking about is someone doing real tests of cpu usage, bandwidth, latency, and overall quality of the sound. I do not have the tools to do such a test, but I bet the guys at TG do. What would be MOST useful are having various catagories. These catagories will be sorted by cpu usage, and bandwidth. For example:

Compare the sound quality between TS and Vent when the cpu usage is exactly (or as close to) 1%, 3%, 5%. (this would be achieved by changing the sound quality until the cpu usage is these %). And then you could use sound capture for both to compare the quality.
A similar test will be used to compare bandwidth vs quality. For example: set TS and Vent to use 1kb/s, 5kb/s, 10 kb/s, etc. and compare quality (with the bandwidth as close to each other as possible).

With both of these tests, the latency will also be recorded for comparison.

Other tests could also compare server cpu usage (and test the ability of the server to handle multiple channels of various sizes).

IMHO these statistics will be very helpful in the gaming community as it will help people decide which voice chat program they will use (whether they want to get the lowest latency, highest sound quality, or lowest cpu usage).

It really doesn't matter. You're not going to notice the difference in voice quality (CPU usage will be determined by your sound subsystem, not the program itself) and with a broadband connection, you're not going to notice any difference in bandwidth either.

Use whatever program you prefer to use. I've used both and haven't noticed a lick of difference between the two. It's only a matter of personal preference.

its really not so much that it matters, I mostly think it would be cool to know which one performs better. I also would like having some facts about the performance of both that I could use to convince my friends to use one over the other.

What it will come down to is the server. The person with the fastest computer and highest speed internet connection should be the server. Your clients will only perform as well as the server serving them.

You completely miss the point. Most people that want a good voice server will use a dedicated server and not host on their gaming rig. I'm talking about running a teamspeak DEDICATED server, and timing latencies, and comparing that to ventrilo running on the SAME dedicated server. I'm not a noob. I know that it's pointless to run a server when you dont have enough cpu power or bandwidth. That's why I'm talking about the client software here. My only interest in the server cpu/bandwidth usage is for people who want to use their server box to host other services.

Well then, again, my original point stands. I don't believe there's going to be any appreciable difference between the two; it will boil down to personal preference. In today's world of 2+ GHz computers and 1Mbps + broadband connections... you probably aren't going to notice a performance difference between the two.

They are both rather small programs that aren't resource hogs... how will this help the gaming community?

The only thing gamers need to know about them is what their clan runs on.

from using both for a while now and with multiple clans i have found a few facts

~voice quality is better with vent
~vent allows you to turn up the incoming speech louder than teamspeak so you can hear your teammates over the game noise
~teamspeak is more user friendly
~teamspeak has not been updated in a while

I' have allways chosen to use Skype, I know it's very Bandwith and CPU demanding, but we are a rather small clan, with no more than wars with 3-5 persons. The Quality is absolutely the best!

But the main reason why I had chosen to use skype, was because it had no DELAY.


Can anyone tell me if there is a difference in delay. Also, I allways used public TS and Vent servers, and someone has said me the delay on payed, dedicated server is far less, and even unnoticable. Is this true?

Thanks,

the CiA-clan (www.cia-clan.be)

Wow, and it only took until the last two posters to put up some useful information. I don't see why you all felt compelled to put in your two cents if you had absolutely nothing constructive to contribute to the topic? The man asked for a comparative analysis and you all gave him flack for it; and on top of that, I honestly don't see it as that outrageous of a question.

....BACK TO TOPIC....
I have used vent for quite a while now, never Teamspeak. I find ventrilo to be a well designed software with lots of flexibility and options. That's not to say I don't have my wish list of changes to the program, but all-in-all i am happy with its performance.

It is true, when comparing vent to skype, there are some quality differences, but at what expense? Skype could be run smoothly by some, in addition to running whichever game you play, but one cannot forget about the multitude of others who need all the juice they can get out of their gaming rig and cannot spare that extra ram and resources required by skype. Ventrilo truly is a low-resource requirement program, relatively speaking.

Like I said before, I cannot offer a heads-up comparison of vent to ts, but from what I have gathered from McGreek's post, ventrilo is the way to go; and my experience supports that.

Plus, ventrilo has been around for a long time and more than likely has greater acceptance within the gaming community. And if the fact is true that TS is no longer being supported and updated, then I would 100% go with ventrilo.

Your information wasn't all that useful when applied to the original question. You basically restated excatly what I did... no appreciable difference between TS and Vent... just a matter of personal preference. (When talking about performance impact at least). Personally, I have both (and Skype) loaded on my computer because different people have different preferences.

Besides, if you cared to actually look at the date of the original post... TS was still a viable alternative back then. But thank you for bumping an old post and making all sort of assumptions that don't necessarily apply anymore.

Dead post probably but...

I used TS2 for the last few years and found that it worked pretty well. I knew a lot of WoW players that use Ventrilo so I tried it out the other day and to me, Ventrilo is sounding better. This may be from the setup that Ventrilo allows, i.e., incoming/outgoing sound controls and/or 44KHz sampling compared to the 32KHz that the TS speex codec used. I'm not exactly sure, but it does seem to sound better.

~S

Dead post.. but relevant still.

They both use the same technology. Its a matter of looking at the specs of each.

If Ventrillo uses 44KHz and TeamSpeak uses 32KHz, that's the difference.

Overall, the technology is the same and the only variable is the options the client allows you to have. No one can say one is better than the other technically.. its a matter of what options you need.

Overall, system usage is the same for both.