You'd never believe it, but FileForum already has 6.3.1.9 Beta posted on its site: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/AnyDVD_HD/1057642382/1
They must have some internal source of info
They must have some internal source of info
I wouldn't use it. It's not been posted here. For all you know it contains bugs which is why it hasn't been released.
Yep. If James doesn't release something publically, then he obviously has a good reason for not doing so. Use that beta at your own risk.
All betas (and stable releases, for that matter) are used on the condition
Inherently, betas are very likely to contain bugs. Betas that don't have bugs are called stable releases
you can consider this version "release quality", so it is safe to use
No, betas published here usually have same or almost same quality as releases:
Then, technically speaking, if it's release quality then it should have been tagged "RC" and not "beta". Those are quite different fundamental stages of software development life cycle
There is a very big difference between private release and public release of a beta. If James didn't release that version for public release, there is probably a reason. It's really as simple as that.
There's no doubt about it. What reason might that be? Also, I personally don't think it's quite right to call a release a beta and saying it's "release quality" in the same sentence, so to speak. It's either a beta or a RC :agree:
I'm not going to quibble over what to call it. Neither I nor you are the developer. Your opinion has been noted by me, but, that means nothing. If they choose to call it a beta, they choose to call it a beta. What reason might that be? As I said, it probably has serious bugs. I wouldn't use it until someone from Slysoft posts it here.
I'm not going to quibble over what to call it. Neither I nor you are the developer. Your opinion has been noted by me, but, that means nothing. If they choose to call it a beta, they choose to call it a beta. What reason might that be? As I said, it probably has serious bugs. I wouldn't use it until someone from Slysoft posts it here.
Why would we launch a beta (public or closed) that has known bugs?
Anything that has bugs we know of will never leave the lab.
That beta was a closed beta, because we didn't want it to go public, period. Reasons for that differ.
So whoever uses that beta outside of the closed area does it without our blessing. Whoever chooses to do so anyway - well, what am I going to do about it?