No splash screen video sound

[SnipedintheHead]

So I have added a few videos to home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/video/yourvideo.mp4 per the wiki (I put each video in a different folder). The videos work fine, but there is no sound on startup.

I even added -0 local and removed --layer 10000 from the asplashscreen file. Adding -0 local causes me to get a usbmount error, with no video playing and --layer causes the video to play, but still there is no sound.

Both videos are mp4's.

Any ideas?

[BuZz]

I formatted your post a bit - you can put single backticks around item to format them as inline code - makes things like commandline parameters more readable.

To change the audio output the omxplayer commandline is -o hdmi/local/both not -0

[SnipedintheHead]

@BuZz said in No splash screen video sound:

I formatted your post a bit - you can put single backticks around item to format them as inline code - makes things like commandline parameters more readable.

I'll be honest, I have no idea what that means :D

I tried putting in -o hdmi/local/both and I'm getting a USB mount error and no video playing. I also don't know if it matters, but I want the video to play from my audio jack, not the HDMI, if possible. The actual error is:

failed to start usbmount@dev-sda.service

I know from other posts that that isn't a big deal, but it seems to be blocking the video from playing now.

[BuZz]

Regarding editing - edit your post and see the changes I made or read this - http://commonmark.org/help/

Regarding the usbmount error - it is unrelated and can be ignored.

I would need to see what you have changed to advise further - you can paste the file with formatting (use a code block) here or use an external pastebin site - please do not post it without formatting.

[SnipedintheHead]

No problem. Thanks for the help.

Here is the file, I think. Hopefully it comes up properly.

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          asplashscreen
# Required-Start:    mountdevsubfs
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:     S
# X-Start-Before:    checkroot
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Show custom splashscreen
# Description:       Show custom splashscreen
### END INIT INFO

ROOTDIR="/opt/retropie"
DATADIR="/home/pi/RetroPie"
RANDOMIZE="disabled"
REGEX_VIDEO="\.avi\|\.mov\|\.mp4\|\.mkv\|\.3gp\|\.mpg\|\.mp3\|\.wav\|\.m4a\|\.aac\|\.ogg\|\.flac"
REGEX_IMAGE="\.bmp\|\.jpg\|\.jpeg\|\.gif\|\.png\|\.ppm\|\.tiff\|\.webp"

do_start () {
    local config="/etc/splashscreen.list"
    local line
    if [ "$RANDOMIZE" = "disabled" ]; then
        line="$(head -1 "$config")"
    elif [ "$RANDOMIZE" = "retropie" ]; then
        line="$(find "$ROOTDIR/supplementary/splashscreen" -type f ! -regex ".*/.git/.*" ! -regex ".*LICENSE" ! -regex ".*README.*" | shuf -n1)"
    elif [ "$RANDOMIZE" = "custom" ]; then
        line="$(find "$DATADIR/splashscreens" -type f ! -regex ".*README.*" | shuf -n1)"
    elif [ "$RANDOMIZE" = "all" ]; then
        line="$( (find "$ROOTDIR/supplementary/splashscreen" -type f ! -regex ".*/.git/.*" ! -regex ".*LICENSE" ! -regex ".*README.*" && find "$DATADIR/splashscreens" -type f ! -regex ".*README.*") | shuf -n1)"
    elif [ "$RANDOMIZE" = "list" ]; then
        line="$(cat "$config" | shuf -n1)"
    fi
    if $(echo "$line" | grep -q "$REGEX_VIDEO"); then
        # wait for dbus
        while ! pgrep "dbus" >/dev/null; do
            sleep 1
        done
        omxplayer -b -o hdmi/local/both "$line"
    elif $(echo "$line" | grep -q "$REGEX_IMAGE"); then
        if [ "$RANDOMIZE" = "disabled" ]; then
            local count=$(wc -l <"$config")
        else
            local count=1
        fi
        [ $count -eq 0 ] && count=1
        [ $count -gt 20 ] && count=20
        local delay=$((20/count))
        if [ "$RANDOMIZE" = "disabled" ]; then
            fbi -T 2 -once -t $delay -noverbose -a -l "$config" >/dev/null 2>&1
        else
            fbi -T 2 -once -t $delay -noverbose -a "$line" >/dev/null 2>&1
        fi
    fi
    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

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[BuZz]

it should be -o hdmi, -o local or -o both not all of them.

[SnipedintheHead]

Changing it to -o local worked great, thank you.

Although now, the Emulation Station Splash Screen overlays the video, so that about 10 seconds into the video I get the ES Screen instead of the rest of the video...

[herb_fargus]

@SnipedintheHead thats because you removed the layer 10000 line

[SnipedintheHead]

@herb_fargus

Yup, putting it back (correctly, which sadly took me far too long) and it's up and working. Thanks! I love the helpfulness of these forums!

[Brigane]

I'm having this problem as well. I tried what was suggested a couple of months ago by @BuZz
It might have something to do with my USB Soundcard which is this one: USB Soundcard
It works with games in both Attract Mode and Emulationstation though.