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When I was at SCaLE 11 conference a few years back I had the pleasure of learning about haiku from one of the creators. He was demoing "big buck bunny" in HD o

by foxhop 10y ago

When I was at SCaLE 11 conference a few years back I had the pleasure of learning about haiku from one of the creators. He was demoing "big buck bunny" in HD on some really tiny and underpowered hardware. As a comparison the had builds with other operating systems and they could not compete, they ran very choppy, like 3 fps. I suggest you try it out. It's refreshing to tinker with an OS that is so fundamentally different. When I went home I installed it on a few machines I had, which were collecting dust. Tinkering with haiku sort of reinvigorated my original wonder of computing from when I as a kid, for a couple months. Later at the conference, I was helping at the Python booth, and I asked if haiku supported Python. The haiku guy was not sure but he got it to compile and run about 4 minutes later, and it worked!

rasz_pl 10y ago
That only means one person was able to implement hardware video decoding while others didnt, nothing to do with OS itself.
- waddlesplash 10y ago
  Actually, Haiku doesn't have any hardware video decoding. It's all software.
  - sdegutis 10y ago
    That sounds miles slower.
    - zamalek 10y ago
      You're missing the point entirely, it could be done in hardware (I'm sure they would be happy with a PR) - but Haiku can do stuff in software that other OSes simply can't; media is just one of the better demos. It follows very strongly from the BeOS demos from the mid 90s[1]. [1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ
      - dzamo_norton 10y ago
        To me this sounds unlikely. The CPU will spend all its time in codec library code here so how much of a role will the OS get to play? More likely the difference is coming from some departure from fairness in how the software codec was compiled
      - voidz 10y ago
        Most of us get your point, I'm sure. :-) Some people just go against everything in their comments.

by foxhop 10y ago

rasz_pl 10y ago

That only means one person was able to implement hardware video decoding while others didnt, nothing to do with OS itself.

waddlesplash 10y ago
Actually, Haiku doesn't have any hardware video decoding. It's all software.
- sdegutis 10y ago
  That sounds miles slower.
  - zamalek 10y ago
    You're missing the point entirely, it could be done in hardware (I'm sure they would be happy with a PR) - but Haiku can do stuff in software that other OSes simply can't; media is just one of the better demos. It follows very strongly from the BeOS demos from the mid 90s[1]. [1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ
    - dzamo_norton 10y ago
      To me this sounds unlikely. The CPU will spend all its time in codec library code here so how much of a role will the OS get to play? More likely the difference is coming from some departure from fairness in how the software codec was compiled
    - voidz 10y ago
      Most of us get your point, I'm sure. :-) Some people just go against everything in their comments.