Video splash screen plays audio with black screen
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I have a fresh install of Retropie on Pi4 and when I set the splash screen to play an mp4 video I can hear audio when I boot up but I don't see any video. I can see in /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh "vlc" is used so I've tried changing some of the command line options like disabling hw acceleration with no luck. I've also tried different videos that other people have used but I get the same result.
Anyone seen this behavior before? I have been struggling to get this to work for a couple of days now.
Model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2
Retropie Version: 4.8.9
Built From: Pre-made SD
OS: Linux retropie 5.10.103-v7l+ #1529 SMP Tue Mar 8 12:24:00 GMT 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux
VLC Version: VLC media player 3.0.17.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
Output/Monitor: Connected to a 10 year old Samsung TV (not sure if that makes any difference) -
Does this happen with every video file or just one/some ? What kind of video codec is the video using ? Does the same video works when playing it with
omxplayer? -
@mitu The behavior is happening with every video I've downloaded. I tried taking one of the mp4's and converted it to MKV but still getting sound with blank video.
Codec = H.264
I'm not sure how to test these videos using omxplayer. Any idea how I would run omxplayer from the command line to test this? The thought had crossed my mind to try changing vlc to omxplayer in the asplashscreen.sh script as a workaround.
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Codec = H.264
That's not saying much, since some encoding profiles for Mpeg4/H254 are not supported by the HW decoder of the Raspberry Pi and thus also not supported by
omxplayer/vlc.Any idea how I would run omxplayer from the command line to test this?
Just exit EmulationStation and run
omxplayer /path/to/video_file.mp4 omxplayer /path/to/video_file.mkvThe thought had crossed my mind to try changing vlc to omxplayer in the asplashscreen.sh script as a workaround.
While that would be possible, the change is not a simple replacement of the program name in the file, they have different arguments. Since
vlchas recently replacedomxplayeras the video player for splashscreen, you can probably test this theory by using a new installation using a RetroPie 4.8 image, but without updating it after installation. -
Thanks, I will look into this.
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Thanks for checking guys.
When I run vlc from command line I'm getting a lot of errors
pi@retropie:~ $ vlc --intf dummy RetroPie/splashscreens/Retropie\ Joystick.mp4 VLC media player 3.0.17.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) [01486608] vlcpulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused [0148e8c8] dbus interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 [0148e8c8] main interface error: no suitable interface module [01405b58] main libvlc error: interface "dbus,none" initialization failed [014990f8] main interface error: no suitable interface module [01405b58] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed [014990f8] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module... [b2732a90] mmal_codec decoder: VCSM init succeeded: CMA [b2732a90] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented [014a0188] gles2 generic error: parent window not available [01499598] mmal_xsplitter vout display error: Failed to open Xsplitter:opengles2 module [014a0188] xcb generic error: window not available [01499598] mmal_xsplitter vout display error: Failed to open Xsplitter:xcb_x11 moduledbus is running
pi@retropie:~ $ ps aux | grep dbus-daemon pi 354 0.0 0.0 6412 1676 ? Ss 10:13 0:00 dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 5 --print-pid 6 --session message+ 393 0.0 0.0 6556 3008 ? Ss 10:13 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only pi 1124 0.0 0.0 7476 528 pts/0 S+ 10:30 0:00 grep --color=auto dbus-daemonRunning omxplayer worked so I made a backup of the asplashscreen.sh and I am now using that and everything is working as expected. I realize that omxplayer is getting phased out due to lack of support on Pi5 but this is doable for me on my Pi4 at the moment
Current asplashscreen.sh
pi@retropie:~ $ cat /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/omxplayer -o alsa /home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/Retropie\ Custom.mp4 -
@Tramadoluser said in Video splash screen plays audio with black screen:
When I run vlc from command line I'm getting a lot of errors
That's ok, since
vlctries a different number of display options and they're not available. Can you rundpkg -l | grep vlcand post the output ?
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That's ok, since
vlctries a different number of display options and they're not available. Can you rundpkg -l | grep vlcand post the output ?
pi@retropie:~ $ dpkg -l | grep vlc
ii libvlc-bin:armhf 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf tools for VLC's base library
ii libvlc-dev:armhf 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf development files for libvlc
ii libvlc5:armhf 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf multimedia player and streamer library
ii libvlccore-dev:armhf 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf development files for libvlccore
ii libvlccore9:armhf 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf base library for VLC and its modules
ii vlc 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf multimedia player and streamer
ii vlc-bin 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf binaries from VLC
ii vlc-data 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 all common data for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-base:armhf 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf multimedia player and streamer (base plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-qt:armhf 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf multimedia player and streamer (Qt plugin)
ii vlc-plugin-video-output:armhf 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2+rpt1 armhf multimedia player and streamer (video output plugins)
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