Comments on: CenterStage alpha

By: Jonathan Greene

Jonathan Greene — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:31:07 +0000

Regardless of my familiarity with alpha software (I am actually), my point was for those who are likely to rush out to try it thinking it’s the answer now. As I mentioned, I like the direction and see the work, though there is quite a long road ahead.

btw - whoa nelly was referring to the massive list of unstructured data I’ve got through the various folders aliased through my Movies directory.

By: jlandau

jlandau — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:47:40 +0000

Have to agree with tjreo.

It would be smart-ass to ask if you’re familiar with the concept of an alpha release, but you’re comments (whoa nelly!) kind of imply that you aren’t.

By: Jonathan Greene

Jonathan Greene — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:22:37 +0000

I hear you. Just reporting my experience for those watching but perhaps not willing to download such early code on their machines. I’m not down on CenterStage, in fact I am quite hopeful it will solve the problem of a common UI for the machtpc. Just a matter of time…

By: tjreo

tjreo — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:27:03 +0000

There is a lot of discussion in the CenterStage forums regarding this Alpha release. The main point from the staff is “remember it is an alpha release”.

This is NOT meant to be used for watching video on a daily basis. There are a significant number of bugs and the video quality is poor.

Then why was it released, you ask?

The development staff was kind enough to let those of us chomping at the bit to have a look also.

This release is to be used as a technology platform for testing code within a real-life app.

There was a point made earlier that the finished app will likely have very little in common with what you currently see.

This is not production-level code. It is not Beta code. It is v0.1 Alpha code.