Video Launching Screens

lenny

Hello all, has anyone had any luck with getting video launching screens to work in retropie on x86? I've searched everywhere and could not find anything for the pc. Any help on this would be great.
Thanks.

mitu

@lenny This is not supported out-of-the-box - which solution to play videos are you referring to ?

lenny

@mitu I'm not sure what you mean by "solution", but i tried to utilize David Marti's script for it with no luck. I'm lost with the omx player which is used on the ras pi. I have managed to get the ES Collections and Bezel project installed and working by replacing /pi/ with my user name in the script, but I'm lost with this one with the video player.

mitu

@lenny said in Video Launching Screens:

i tried to utilize David Marti's script for it with no luck

That's what I was referring to - do you have a link to it ?

lenny

@mitu https://pastebin.com/jmvuBDib

Thanks for your help!

mitu

@lenny You've pointed to the configuration script for the video launching script (which only enabled/disabled the video), but what I'd really need to give a helping hand is the actual launching script. I've searched a bit, but I cannot find any code for the script - except some references to 3rd party ROM images.

dmmarti

Here's the forum post with the script for the Pi.

I'm not sure what video player is available in the x86 install.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20322/game-launching-video-loading-screens

mitu

@dmmarti Aha, strange I couldn't find it by searching.
@lenny you should probably replace the omxplayer occurences in the script with vlc:

omxplayer  "file" 2>&1

should be replaced with

cvlc --quiet --fullscreen --play-and-exit "file" 2>&1

wherever omxplayer appears.

lenny

@mitu sorry for the late reply, I'm on break at work. Thank you very much for you time and patience, as you can tell I'm a retropoe/Linux noob!

lenny

@dmmarti Thank you so much Dave your a genius and I admit I try to use most of your scripts on Linux retropie!

lenny

@mitu I would like to say Thank again and confirm that this works.
Here is a pastebin of my runcommand-onstart.sh https://pastebin.com/A2wz6ErK
Another helpful hint is to go into vlc player first, go to tools, preferences then subtitles/OSD and uncheck "show media title on video start"
Also in retropie menu under run command config I enabled launch menu and launch menu art to hide the normal loading text for a cleaner look. For us x86 users the runcommand-onstart was not there by default and had to be created.
Thank You also again David Marti!