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  • 11/26/2015 at 14:28 #110729
    chito
    Participant

    I created a video splash screen that i want to use instead of the retropie splash screen and the emulation station splash screen. currently it starts to load ES once the video is over

    How can i get it to play while ES is loading in the background? ie when the video is over the user is ready to select a system

    11/26/2015 at 15:23 #110734
    petrockblog
    Keymaster

    Read the wiki :) https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/splashscreen

    11/26/2015 at 15:24 #110735
    petrockblog
    Keymaster

    Note that ES will appear over the video though (afair) and cut it off short but it will be seamless – it will load in background, but the ES “starting up” screen will not.

    11/26/2015 at 16:04 #110739
    chito
    Participant

    Ive read the wiki both solutions will still give me the ES splash screen with the words “loading…” the only difference is when my video stops.

    Im trying to get my video to keep playing on top of that ES loading screen so that by the time its has finished I see the systems. is that possible?

    something do with this maybe?
    do sleep 1

    11/26/2015 at 16:11 #110740
    petrockblog
    Keymaster

    as I said above, you can’t have ES start behind – well unless you disabled the loading screen on ES and have it init everything and then open the GUI. requires modifications of ES code.

    11/26/2015 at 16:16 #110742
    petrockblog
    Keymaster

    or a modification of omxplayer to put it on a higher layer – see https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=25866 / https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc-rbp/blob/master/xbmc/cores/omxplayer/OMXVideo.cpp#L546

    11/26/2015 at 16:53 #110746
    chito
    Participant

    its been done before

    modify logo and menu emulationstation

    I just dont know how to replicate this with how retropie does it now

    11/26/2015 at 17:26 #110748
    chito
    Participant

    its 3:20am here so after some trial and error ive worked it out

    the following needs to be modified
    edit /etc/profile.d/10-emulationstation.sh as per wiki to boot ES seamless

    #while pgrep omxplayer &>/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
[ "<code>tty</code>" = "/dev/tty1" ] && emulationstation

    edit /etc/init.d/asplashscreen
    find the line (should be line 21)
    omxplayer -b "$line"
    and update to
    omxplayer -b --layer 10000 "$line"

    so now it plays right into ES. awesome

    Theres another issue im hoping i could get some help with. so even before all this when my video starts to play it starts to play without sound. then a second in the sound starts to play… anyway to fix this?

    11/26/2015 at 17:45 #110750
    petrockblog
    Keymaster

    Didn’t realise omxplayer now had a layer option. good spot. I will consider adding this so it stays in front.

    11/26/2015 at 17:53 #110751
    chito
    Participant

    works nice and clean. thanks to whoismezero for his solution.

    any idea what could be causing the sound issue? takes about 1s to 1.5s for the sound to abruptly come in.

    11/26/2015 at 18:10 #110755
    petrockblog
    Keymaster

    maybe as it starts before ALSA is properly initialised or something.

    11/26/2015 at 21:57 #110767
    herbfargus
    Member

    Just for reference its been added to the source:

    https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/1099

    Thanks for the tip.

    11/29/2015 at 23:46 #110909
    chito
    Participant

    Hello guys Ive just noticed something: when playing video of different aspect ratio, by default it letterboxes the video. the areas on the top and bottom that would normally be black are showing ES loading despite the -b on the command. what can be done?

    maybe zoom (pan scan) it?
    [attachment file=”101217040853_67573.jpg”]

    other solutions i found
    https://github.com/huceke/omxplayer/issues/22

    this one relies on xterm
    http://pieter.blinkenshell.org/blog/?p=123

    11/30/2015 at 00:47 #110911
    petrockblog
    Keymaster

    When i tested it before it def made the background black – must be due to the layer change, in that ES is over the top of the black background, but under the video – maybe the black background is on a lower layer that isn’t configurable.

    11/30/2015 at 00:50 #110912
    petrockblog
    Keymaster

    I think it is that – so you will need to zoom the video – but it’s an issue that could be reported back to omxplayer – perhaps to get it to use the same layer as the –layer parameter (or one less or something)

    11/30/2015 at 02:23 #110915
    chito
    Participant

    I thought the same thing. the background is under ES. as far as i can tell there is no options to pan-scan. do you think any of the solutions in the links from my last post could help? Im at work and cant test it. even if i could not 100% sure on what im doing lol but could give it a crack

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