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Alpha (developer) versions
Help us testing! This page contains experimental dvdisaster versions
which are created on the way to the next stable release.
A word of caution: This version is still evolving and some parts
are not yet implemented. It may contain severe bugs and fail in non-obvious
ways, even in functions which worked in previous versions.
Do not process important data with this version and do not keep images and
error correction data for archival purposes;
that's what the stable version 0.72
is for.
Planned changes in the new version
All platforms:
- Implement some small additions which have been put on hold
during the 0.72 development cycle. [not yet started]
- Remove obsolete functionality. [completed]
- Clean up source code and prepare for multithreading and multi core
processors. [in progress]
- Implement the multithreaded RS03 codec. [in progress]
- Document RS03 usage. [not yet started]
Windows:
- Update the GTK+ toolkit and development system. [completed]
- Raise system requirements to Windows 2000 or newer (older
Windows releases are no longer supported by the development tools).
This makes support for ASPI drivers and splitting files into 2G
segments obsolete. [completed]
MacOS:
- Update the GTK+ toolkit and provide more workarounds
for the graphical user interface. [not yet started]
Downloads
The alpha versions use the same package format as the regular releases.
dvdisaster-0.79 | 07-Feb-2010 |
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0.79.1(07-Feb-2010)
All platforms: This release contains major internal changes compared
to 0.72.x. Please use it carefully.
- The SCSI layer contains a workaround for buggy chipsets found in recent
drives. Starting a read or scan operation would case a system freeze with
such drives. The problem seems to be especially visible under Windows XP,
but other OS might expose similar failures.
Please test if these drives are working
now, and also report if some drives stopped working which were okay previously.
- A reference implementation of the RS03 codec is
included. This version is only supplied so that interested people can
compare it against its specification.
Take care and do not use it for productive work. The final version will
be released with version 0.80.
Windows: All components of the development environment and the
supplied libraries have been updated. Please test whether the graphical
user interface and localization still work as expected.
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