LEGO Pi: A giant 1x1 that plays games.

Allanbuzzy

@edmaul69 I've seen people do that code you put in autostart.sh but I do not want to risk my ES not booting up. I also do not want to enable overscan because it'll make the screen go over. It's not had an issue on my old Phillips TV, but it's one of those old Grundig TVs.

This issue is not from the Pi it's self. It could be the HDMI cable (using a Sky HDMI cable) that I'm using, but I doubt that because the HDMI works fine when I'm playing games and stuff.

edmaul69

@allanbuzzy making the splashscreen video itself a smaller resolution fixes it. Not changing the resolution on the pi. If you convert your video to a smaller not 1080p video it fixes the issue.

Allanbuzzy

@edmaul69 It's not 1080p, I use convert2mp3 and it only goes up to 720p.

Allanbuzzy

Is there still a way to get the bug fixed?

Allanbuzzy

I tried connecting it to the living room TV and no signal.

THE BUG IN QUESTION: (sorry for bad quality)

edmaul69

@allanbuzzy yeah i dont know how to fix the bug butt lowering the resolution of your actual video makes it work.

Allanbuzzy

@edmaul69 So maybe 480p?

edmaul69

@allanbuzzy yeah. I think might have 720 worked for me but i could be wrong.

Allanbuzzy

@edmaul69 I did lower the resolution to about 360p, it's lost it's HD goodness but the issue is that the only time it cut was when the LEGO logo formed. I guess it's slowly fixing itself, I don't know

Allanbuzzy

I do want to make a theme for my project, as I feel as if it deserves it. I like the Metro theme that @Omnija made, but I do not want to copy him or his work.

The one problem I have is that I am on a Mac, and I don't think there are any programs that help me create a theme.

Wombat

Cool Lego Project!

About your splashscreen video problem. Try this:

Go to /etc/init.d/asplashscreen

Within that file, scroll down to where it says omxplayer -o both -b --layer 10000 "$line". Change that to omxplayer -o both --layer 10000 "$line". (You're removing the -b from the code)

That worked for my problem.

Allanbuzzy

@wombat Thanks for your suggestion, I'll try this and see if it'll work for my TV.

EDIT: IT WORKS! Thank you Wombat, that has made my day! Not one single cutoff!

Wombat

@allanbuzzy

Yea! Glad it worked for you! :)

Allanbuzzy

Does anyone have a music script I could use? I found some good music I could use for my project.

Allanbuzzy

This is pretty funny and weird at the same time, but basically on the RetroPie-Extra splash screens, something that I noticed was that someone already created a LEGO Pi splashscreen.

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This is completely unrelated, but I noticed it very easily.