Ventrilo Version 3.0 - Coming to a Ventrilo Server Near You!

by GL_Support on 2007/11/11 13:27

Flagship Industries plans to release Ventrilo v3.0.0 sometime on Wednesday, November 14, 2007. Version 3.0 is the newest and the best and we will only be temporarily supporting both in a transitional manner. Installing the new client should be quick and painless and will provide some great new features.

This new version requires a new client be downloaded and installed on every user's PC or MAC. The client is available at:

http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php

The Ventrilo v3.0.0 client is *NOT* compatible with v2.3 servers, so once you upgrade your client you will only be able to connect to Ventrilo v3 servers. When a v2.3 client tries to connect to a v3.0 server it will pop up a message saying the server is running v3.0.0. However, if you install the v3.0.0 client and then try connecting to a v2.3 server it will just sit there saying "Contacting server" and will never come back. You can click disconnect to stop this process.

As of now, we have updated the Control Panel (http://ventrilo.mycp.net) to be ready for v3.0.0. The new files will be put into place sometime after the expected release time on Wednesday.

As for upgrading servers, we are providing a way for everyone to perform their own upgrades. On Wednesday, we will open the "Upgrade" option in the Control Panel. Simply click the link and the system will upgrade your server.

This process CANNOT be reversed (this means the upgrade is PERMANENT). Make sure you communicate with your users, when you/they plan on upgrading their server so they don't upgrade their client too early.

Those servers that have not been upgraded by the evening of Friday, November 16, 2007 (US Eastern Time) will be upgraded sometime between Friday evening and Monday morning. If your server falls into this category, when you receive the "server is running 3.0.0" error in your Ventrilo v2.3 client, you need to then visit the Ventrilo Download Link (mentioned above) to download and install the Ventrilo v3.0.0 client.

Here are some of the added features in Ventrilo v3.0.0:

1) Multiple CODECS: You can now have a different CODEC for each channel. You can have your server set to GSM if you wish, and then set a channel up just for another CODEC (like SPEEX). We do not restrict the CODEC you choose to use nor to we charge more for the use of the higher end CODECS like many others do.

2) Overlay Support: An Overlay is a mechanism by which the program can present data to the user on the display screen that normally would not be visible during such situations such as when the user is playing a game in full screen mode.

3) Advanced User Access Rights: You now have more "power" to fine tune what each of your Ventrilo Users can do.

4) Guest MOTD: You can force a MOTD on all guests that enter your server. The Guest MOTD is only sent to those users who do not have an account created on this server. It is always displayed at login as well, unlike the regular MOTD which is only displayed if it changes or if the Server Properties has dictated to always be displayed.

5) Complaints: Users can now lodge a complaint about a user on a server. complaint will only be visible by those users who have been given access rights to receive complaints. This option is available only if you have been given access rights to send complaint messages.

6) Integration: This feature enables or disables integration with one of the selected media player programs listed in the menu (iTunes, WinAmp and Windows Media Player). When enabled the Ventrilo client will periodically poll the specified application for details about what it is currently playing: song, artist, track, etc. This information will be sent out to all of the other users on the server to see and it will be displayed in quotes after the transmitting users name and after their comment if there is one.

7) Ventrilo Rank List: If an account is assigned a rank then all other users will see the abbreviated form of the rank in front of the users account name in the main Ventrilo window. Each rank is assigned a Level value between 0 and 100. If the associated rank level is greater then or equal to a channels "Transmit Rank Level" and the channels "Voice Mode" is Queued or Muted then when the user joins that channel they will be automatically un-muted. Whereas, anyone with a Rank Level below the channels Transmit Rank Level will be automatically muted. A Channel or Server Admin can still manually unmute a muted user so that they can transmit.

8) Voice Targets: Voice Targets are virtual channels that only certain accounts are allowed to receive-from and/or transmit-to. You must have an account on the server in order to be part of a target group. If you receive a voice stream from another user that is part of a voice target group that you are a member of and they are transmitting to just the voice target group, rather then to a channel like normal, then the icon of the person transmitting will be displayed as a Green "G" for group target stream.

9) Commanding Targets: Commanding Targets are basically virtual channels for sending text based commanding messages that can be spoken using Text-To-Speech and/or displayed using the Video Overlay features of the program. The primary use is for one or more people to send text oriented commanding messages to a larger group of people of a specific target group. These text messages can be entered manually into the Commanding Targets window or bound to a series of Bindable keys / buttons just like the TTS and Wave File binds.

Written by Sh0tD3aD42 on 11/11/07

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