Video Splash Screen

[moorens]

https://vimeo.com/83644752 Splash Screen Video
https://vimeo.com/83644752 Full System Video
http://nicholasmoore.net/2013/09/29/retroconsole-with-custom-music-rev3-1/

edit /boot/cmdline.txt file:
sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt

Add quiet
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait quiet

Press ctrl-x, type y to confirm save, then press enter and return to the terminal.

Copy your video to your Raspberry Pi

create a script that will run omxplayer on bootup.

sudo nano /etc/init.d/asplashscreen

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: asplashscreen
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:
# Default-Start: S
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Show custom splashscreen
# Description: Show custom splashscreen
### END INIT INFO

do_start () {

omxplayer /home/pi/video.mov &
exit 0
}

case “$1″ in
start|””)
do_start
;;
restart|reload|force-reload)
echo “Error: argument ‘$1’ not supported” >&2
exit 3
;;
stop)
# No-op
;;
status)
exit 0
;;
*)
echo “Usage: asplashscreen [start|stop]” >&2
exit 3
;;
esac

:

Press ctrl-x, and save

make file executable
sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/asplashscreen

activate
sudo insserv /etc/init.d/asplashscreen

Reboot and wait

[Anonymous]

I tried this 3 times now and it works, but there’s always one major problem:

The whole system becomes excessively slow and then unresponsive to anything, no matter what you type, it doesn’t execute giving an error. After rebooting, nothing loads, just error messages.

Another “problem” is the text before and after the video, the “quiet” command doesn’t seem to do anything.

Is this normal, am I the only one getting this?

Thanks for the post though, it made things a lot clearer.

The asplashscreen file has this in it:

do_start () {

    line=$(head -n 1 /etc/splashscreen.list)
    isMovie=$(echo $line | grep -o "*.mpg")
    if [ -z "$isMovie" ]; then
      /usr/bin/fbi -T 1 -noverbose -a -l /etc/splashscreen.list &
    else
      mplayer $line &
    fi
    exit 0

I’m trying to understand it still, but I see “isMovie” in there and .mpg, a video format. All things considered, I think I’ll convert my MP4 into an MPG format and replace the splash screen with it, see where that goes.

Thanks for the contribution, it looked great when I booted it! I hope this works. :)

[moorens]

Let me know how it goes. If you still have the issue let me know.
I have no lag or any issues.

I will try to pull my exact config and make sure I did not change anything.

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