One interesting difference between Haiku on a USB stick and other operating systems is that, if you have a library of 24bit 96Khz FLAC HD Audio files, you can boot most modern laptops and get fully configured HD Audi without any need to tweek the settings. I think from memory its running even higher than this.
If you do that in Linux you get pulse audio running at 16bit 48khz and need specialist knowledge to tweek it. Most people have not discovered how to do that and buy dedicated hardware instead - then have the problem of the low speed USB interface to deal with.
Haiku has very good support for intel HD Audio, right out of the box and plays both FLAC and Vorbis no problem at all.
Just an idea to differentiate it a little in the market. On the 4.1 release the audio player has some audio glitches on my hardware near the beginning of each track. Maybe that could be fixed in the new version.
Well… the intel HDA audio is hit and miss. There is a plethora of slightly differing chipsets around. Some work better than others. You should give a nightly image a try.
Maybe your issue is already fixed.
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Thanks, I’ll try it one day when I have high speed internet access that is not limited to a measly few meg.
Hi Humdinger
I just downloaded the last nightly 64-bit iso and burned my stick.
First thing I tried was to play some music - the wv files played ok, everything died on the first FLAC file.
Mine are all 96Khz 24-bit. Didn’t try any lower ones. The player hogged the whole of the CPU and then died with an error message.
I went back to the Alpha after that and reburned my original to the stick, so I cant try it again. No point for me if it dont play HD Flac.
For other reading this thread with Haiku HD Audio in mind, and for the record, my hardware is:
Acer Aspire 3810T 4GB RAM Intel Centrino (ex Windows Vista Machine) Intel Core 2 Solo CPU with HD Audio onboard. Normally running Linux Mint 17 (later versions also problematic) Not running Vista since 2007. Wishing for Haiku yet only use it for quick boot movie and audio playing, and its very good for that, direct from my Linux EXT4 partition in read-omly mode and playing at 96/192khz no sweat.
Cheers