Game launching video loading screens

PISCES3988

Can someone please make this easier, please with a cherry on top!

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I really don't have a clear understanding of what I'm doing with all these different commands, just to get videoloadingscreens to work.

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@pisces3988

I have no programing or coding experience to pull this off easy, like someone that does.

mitu

@pisces3988 said in Game launching video loading screens:

I have no programing or coding experience to pull this off easy, like someone that does.

Adding some text to a file doesn't require programming/coding experience. The topic starter explains in detail how to do that, just editing a file.

Can someone please make this easier, please with a cherry on top!

Please check the contents of the /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh file - open it in an editor, like you did when following the installation instructions - and post its contents here, surrounded by a block delimiters (three backticks - ```).

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@mitu

Which editor should I use?

mitu

@pisces3988 said in Game launching video loading screens:

Which editor should I use?

Which editor did you use when you created the file in the first place ?

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@mitu

Putty

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@pisces3988

Then I tried it directly on the Rasperry Pi as well.

mitu

Putty is not an editor, it's just a SSH client, used to connect to the Pi.

Connect with Putty, to your Pi, then run

cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh

then post the output here, surrounded by a block delimiters (three backticks - ```).

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@mitu

Where do I put the 3 backticks at, If that's what your asking?

mitu

@pisces3988 I'm asking you to provide the output of that command. The backticks (code blocks delimiters) are for the forum, as @Clyde explained a few posts before.

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pi@retropie:~ $ cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh

# Extract file name from Called ROM
gname="$(basename "$3")"
# build path to file and remove extension from ROM to add mp4 extension
# $HOME variable will help users that are not stick to raspberry ;)
ifgame="HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens${gname%.*},mp4"
ifsystem="$HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/$1.mp4"
ls= $HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/
# If condition to check filename with -f switch, f means regular file
if [[ -f $ifgame ]]; then
    omxplayer "$ifgame" > /dev/null 2>&1
elif [[ -f $ifsystem ]]; then
     omxplayer "$ifsystem" > /dev/null 2>&1
elif [[ -f $default ]]; then
   omxplayer "$default" > /dev/null 2>&1
fi

pi@retropie:~ $

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@pisces3988

I don't know why some of the other words are bigger than the other words, it wasn't like that before.

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pi@retropie:~ $ cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh

Extract file name from Called ROM

gname="$(basename "$3")"

build path to file and remove extension from ROM to add mp4 extension

$HOME variable will help users that are not stick to raspberry ;)

ifgame="HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens${gname%.*},mp4"
ifsystem="$HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/$1.mp4"
ls= $HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/

If condition to check filename with -f switch, f means regular file

if [[ -f $ifgame ]]; then
omxplayer "$ifgame" > /dev/null 2>&1
elif [[ -f $ifsystem ]]; then
omxplayer "$ifsystem" > /dev/null 2>&1
elif [[ -f $default ]]; then
omxplayer "$default" > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
pi@retropie:~ $

mitu

It's because characters as # have special meaning in the forum post - they start a heading. If you would have added the code blocks, as asked, they would have appear like in the 1st post of the topic.
I added the code blocks to your post, so it shows correctly now.

Regarding your issue, you've modified the original script and replaced

 default="$HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/default.mp4"

with

ls= $HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/

that's why you get the error. Modify the line back, so it has the correct value.

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@mitu

How do I get to that to modify It

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@pisces3988

Can you explain to me how to use code blocks so I'll have a better understanding of what
I'm doing?

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@mitu

Can you explain to me how to use code blocks so I'll have a better understanding of what
I'm doing?

mitu

@pisces3988 Please don't spam the topic with repeated messages.
Just add ``` before and after the text block to have it shown formatted. This is for the forum posts, it will not have any effect on the error you're getting with the onstart script.

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@mitu

oh sorry