Splashscreen Intro Video

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Fleder » Fri May 20, 2016 7:36 am

tanooki wrote:What software did you use to make your video? I have my own idea for a boot up video that I would like to try out. Thanks.
Pinnacle Studio 16. It's pretty cheap for its features.

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Robots86 » Tue May 24, 2016 1:26 am

Does anyone have a fix for video not loading at boot up?

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Fleder » Tue May 24, 2016 1:28 am

Robots86 wrote:Does anyone have a fix for video not loading at boot up?
Can you post your folder structure and where you've put your video?
Or better, the whole process you went through when you tried to activate splash screen video.

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Robots86 » Tue May 24, 2016 2:29 am

Fleder wrote:
Robots86 wrote:Does anyone have a fix for video not loading at boot up?
Can you post your folder structure and where you've put your video?
Or better, the whole process you went through when you tried to activate splash screen video.
/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/myvideo/myvideo.mp4

video is saved here. its in its own folder in the splashscreens folder. i have checked that the custom splashscreen is enabled. It loads some times but most of the time the screen just flashes black and the video wont play.... Not sure if its a memory issue or something?

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Fleder » Tue May 24, 2016 3:25 am

Robots86 wrote: /home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/myvideo/myvideo.mp4

video is saved here. its in its own folder in the splashscreens folder. i have checked that the custom splashscreen is enabled. It loads some times but most of the time the screen just flashes black and the video wont play.... Not sure if its a memory issue or something?
So it DOES play, just not every boot?
Did you change anything before this reboot?
I have the feeling it only happens if you changed anything and then did a reboot.

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Robots86 » Tue May 24, 2016 3:47 am

Fleder wrote:
Robots86 wrote: /home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/myvideo/myvideo.mp4

video is saved here. its in its own folder in the splashscreens folder. i have checked that the custom splashscreen is enabled. It loads some times but most of the time the screen just flashes black and the video wont play.... Not sure if its a memory issue or something?
So it DOES play, just not every boot?
Did you change anything before this reboot?
I have the feeling it only happens if you changed anything and then did a reboot.
It does play sometimes. I would say 9 times out of 10 it dosnt. I dont make any changes im rebooting hoping to see my video and nothing plays....
theres a couple of posts on the old retropie forums with people having similar issues.....

http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/top ... g-anymore/
http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/top ... esnt-play/

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Robots86 » Tue May 24, 2016 3:51 am

last post in the second link.....


This is exactly what fixed it for me:

sudo nano /etc/init.d/asplashscreen

and add
sleep 1
in between
rm -f /tmp/writable
and omxplayer -b --layer 10000 "$line"
10 restarts and still playing



going to give this a try when i get home

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Popcorn » Tue May 24, 2016 8:57 am

Thanks for that. Had the same problem. 9 out of 10 times it would launch. Sometimes not though.

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Robots86 » Tue May 24, 2016 1:30 pm

This hasn't worked for me i have tried sleep 1 and sleep 5. back to the drawing board

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Re: Splashscreen Intro Video

Post by Ganreizu » Tue May 24, 2016 4:28 pm

Kilren wrote:Ha. No problem. I did this a couple of weeks ago for the same reason. I'll share with you and whoever needs it the how.

Find your boot screen clip on youtube. I searched "Gameboy DMG bootup video" in google. Watch and make sure that it is what you need.
Use one of any number of youtube video converters for download. I personally use clipconverter.cc (here is the plug of "don't take anything that is copyrighted, pirated, doesn't rightfully belong to you, etc."). Go through the simple directions given there. They have options for a couple of different video formats, as well as a few audio only formats.

Repeat for any other console boot screen your heart desires.
So i noticed the file you provided has two frames of the title screen for a mario game at the end (i forgot which game). I took the liberty of removing those two frames so it's nice and clean.

File is here:
http://www.filedropper.com/gb-dmgbootupding

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