AOL unveils VoIP plans

Try Mac mini as a Skype+Internet box: VOIP was what I had in mind for the Mac mini. The wife can skype her friends instead of telephoning them (they all have skype). I figure we save about 80 Euros a month in international calls, so it will pay for itself within a 7 months.

Advantage over a headset is it can also surf the net and play DVDs/music cds etc. Its quiet enough to leave running.

Works well (finally got it a few days ago), but with one or two iffies. The mini needs a USB headset because it lacks an analogue in.

Quicktime doesn't play full screen MPEG or DIVx (only DVD plays full screen) they want $30 more for Quicktime pro, so I installed mplayer for OSX instead. Its better anyway.

Also Microsoft's video player doesn't work properly. Even when it plays it seems to work artificially slowly and doesn't support full screen. Strange, it plays zdnet videos perfectly!
And they're planning on using MS video codecs in next gen DVDs?

see the comments here:

http://www.download.com/Windows-Media-Player/3640-2182-10242701.html

/miniplug; Posted by: Nigel Johnstone Posted on: 03/08/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use