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Originally posted by bridgman View PostOK, let me try this one more time.
The "beta program" started off with "real" beta drops (functionally complete, all features working but might still have bugs) but over the years we started providing earlier access into development, to the point where todays "beta testers" basically have a pipe into our upstream development builds, often getting access to code 4-6 weeks before "beta".
You see or hear about new features in those early development builds, think they are "betas" because of the program name, and conclude that a "public beta" program would solve your problems, or at least those related to support for new kernels and X servers. When we don't give you public betas, you draw conclusions ranging from us being ignorant and incompetent to us being pawns of a certain large software company and committed to the destruction of Linux.
Your logic is sound, but you are basing the conclusion on bad assumptions. The key point here is that public betas would *not* get you the kind of early support you want, since what would qualify as a beta is usually only a couple of weeks ahead of the final release. What you would need is "public release of early development builds" which is something completely different.
Every additional release we create takes time away from other improvements in the driver. If you were really getting "early development build" features in the final beta releases then I agree that might be a good tradeoff, but that is simply not what would happen.
I really believe that calls for public betas right now are missing the point, for the simple reason that they would *not* give you the new functionality you are expecting. If you focus on the real issue -- earlier support for new kernels and X servers -- I think we have more options for helping.
Basically that's it. For the people expecting early support from the BETAs I'm sorry to say that you would be very disappointed. Those driver revision often have bugs, stuff that's broken, and even sometimes stuff that's missing.
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Originally posted by Qaridariumin windows only nonopensource software cann use this feature like POWERDVD or somsing else Comercial software with NDA and some other...
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostWrong MPC-HC supports the UVD2 decoder in windows just fine and is fully opensource.
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/DXVASupport.html
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