[Solved]Splashscreen Video

mitu

I find it unlikely that the new ES version has anything to do with the splashcreen. In fact, you can disable the loading messages - to get the previous behavior - by modifying the Emulationstation settings (~/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg) and adding

<bool name="SplashScreenProgress" value="false" />

and the loading progress is not going to be shown. You can even start ES without the splashscreen altogether, by modifying the autostart.sh script and adding --no-splash to the command line.

The loading progress is just an addition to the existing Splashscreen, it's not starting before it.

ByteThis

@mitu Gotcha ! I wasn't sure if that had anything to do with it or not. Just guessing I suppose. So I can get a static splashscreen to work on boot but no video splash. I tried a couple of other ones besides the ones I was using, but still no dice. Is there an update for the vlc player by chance or does the OMX player handle the video splashes ?

mitu

@ByteThis On the PI, omxplayer should handle the splashscreen. Try re-configuring the splashscreen scriptmodule (if you didn't do it already), from the Configuration / Tools menu of the RetroPie-Setup script, sometimes on upgrades the configuration can change.

ByteThis

@mitu I have been in there and have re-configured it several times..rebooted after each change and still no go. This was happening before I updated to Stretch while still on Jessie when I updated ES to have both internal scrapers present in Retropie or when I installed the rapidjson dependency.

mitu

I can't reproduce this - I normally don't use a video splashscreen, but I re-configured it now to use a video. The video starts, then the ES screen shows at the Done stage during the progress.
How long is your video splashscreen ?

ByteThis

@mitu Hmmm..maybe something in my Retropie then. The videos are around 30 secs.

mitu

@ByteThis Maybe someone else encountered this problem, as I said, I don't use video splashscreen (just have a static image) and a quick test doesn't show anything special.

ByteThis

@mitu Thank you for trying to help. Very much appreciated. Like you mentioned..maybe someone else will see this and have a solution if it happened to them. I will keep searching..haha. Thank you again !

ByteThis

Ok I found an error while trying to preview my .mp4 video files in the splashscreen menu.
/usr/bin/omxplayer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libWFC.so : cannot open shared object file : no such file or directory

mitu

@ByteThis Let me guess - you upgraded from Jessie to Strech using an in-place upgrade ?

ByteThis

@mitu Yes from this thread : https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16145/retropie-upgrading-raspbian-jessie-to-stretch

I don't have any other problems at all and everything runs smoothly. I have too much to transfer back and forth. But this happened before the upgrade. The only other thing I can think of is I installed Hursty Theme downloader to try the themes he has.

mitu

@ByteThis You know, this is the reason that the recommended method is to use a new image. Everything seems to work fine, except when it doesn't. Maybe something else will show up down the road, something you don't notice right now.

Try running

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --reinstall install omxplayer

and post the output.

ByteThis

@mitu said in Splashscreen Video:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install omxplayer

@mitu This is the output https://pastebin.com/ALgTk46X

ByteThis

@mitu After reinstalling OMX player...Video Splash screen is back. I can't thank you enough, and yes thank you for the spanking on upgrading. I planned on doing a proper upgrade but don't have a lot of time for all the files I have to move around. I have other smaller cards to upgrade and those will be done properly. If I could buy you a beer or two I would man ! Appreciate it .

ByteThis

@mitu said in [Solved]Splashscreen Video:

@ByteThis You know, this is the reason that the recommended method is to use a new image. Everything seems to work fine, except when it doesn't. Maybe something else will show up down the road, something you don't notice right now.

You were right. I encountered many other problems. I took the time and upgraded properly a day ago and all is working fine now. Thanks. I didn't doubt you but tried to take a shortcut to make my life easier..lol..no dice. I spent more time trying to fix problems than what it was worth.

SargentRooster

Can I just say that this was happening to me as well and once I followed this it now works perfectly! Thank You @mitu You're An MVP!