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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mearlus" data-source="post: 3542270" data-attributes="member: 1850">I was hoping to get some feedback on what others are doing in situations similiar to what is occuring in one of our games.One of our players recently got a job about 1500 miles away and is moving.  This player would really like to continue to play in the campaign so we're looking at options to make this work.Obviously the ideal situation would be to have some nice streaming video of both him and our game board with audio that prevents feedback.  The hurtle we're working on is keeping it as cheap as possible.  I've seen some web cameras that are able to be remotely remote controlled but aren't that cheap and the one(s) that I have seen that are reasonable (~100$) require some subscription service in order to remote control it without remotely connecting to the local PC.  So i'm thinking maybe multiple cheap webcams.  One stationary w/ a birds eye view of the grid and one that we maybe manually point to the DM and whoever else is the focus at any moment.I've seen a few places that you can stream video to in a 'tv station' fashion like Ustream.com but I'm not keen on that idea yet. So figuring out the best within reasonable price range video is one problem.   The second problem is audio.I'm debating between VoIP (I have access to an asterisk box so it would be a private voip), Teamspeak or Ventrilo which both we can do on a private server.  The remote player could easily just have a headset just as with playing online games.  The problem is having a device/mic/speaker setup at the game site that can pick up everyone through speaker phone type setup but still not give feedback when the remote guy talks.  That's really leaning me towards using VoIP with a speaker phone that can handle those issues.  However they generally aren't that cheap.So in the end my question's are:Anyone else having similiar situations?Is there some better solutions already out there to facilitate this?What have been your experiences with gaming in this fashion, has it worked out?Thanks for any input!</blockquote>

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