Mumble Server

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In this tutorial we're going to setup a mumble server (murmur) on a linux machine. It's quite simple and won't take long - the most time-consuming part is editing the config file. ;)

Basic information

Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. Its homepage is http://mumble.sourceforge.net/. For the graphics, it uses Qt and as a codec it uses speex.

Downloading and extracting murmur

Depending on what distribution you use, you can install mumble/murmur through apt (debian) or other package-based-tools. We're going to use the static version of murmur here. Static version means that you just need to download, extract, and use the programm.

cd ~/
wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mumble/murmur-static_x86-1.1.7.tar.bz2
mv murmur-static_x86-1.1.7.tar.bz2 murmur.tar.bz2
bunzip2 murmur.tar.bz2
tar xvf murmur.tar
cd murmur

Editing the config file

There are a lot of options in this config, e.g. using a mysql database, or a website for user registration and so on, but we'll just set the main parts up.

nano murmur.ini

Please note: you can take any texteditor you want

logfile=murmur.log
port=<your_port_here>
serverpassword=<your_server_password_if_needed>
bandwidth=5000
users=200


A little explanation for the bandwidth command: In Mumble, you can set the bandwidth you would like to send on your own. E. g. if a user has got small upload-speed, he should use a quite small bandwidth/quality in Mumble. With the command in the server config, you set the maximum bandwidth value.

Starting murmur

Just use the normal command to execute it

chmod u+x murmur.x86
./murmur.x86

That's it. Have fun with your mumble server!