Splash Screen worked for years, now it doesn't

BuZz

@Retrodade To fix the video ending too soon, you can run this from a terminal (Temporary workaround).

sudo rm /etc/profile.d/05-splash.sh

I will have a fix for this shortly. I can't reproduce the audio issue currently though. Do you use HDMI audio or the jack connector ?

Retrodade

@BuZz nice I'll give this a go; we are using audio jack for the arcade we can't use HDMI
maybe it needs be added for VLC to see the headphone jack?
my music for emulation station still works it's just the splash beside cutting out
I'll give this work around a go too

UPDATE: currently
I ran your temp fix, video plays longer , no audio for it, BUT the music on Emulation Station starts before video is finished,
originally it waited for video to end before playing the tunes.

and thanks for helping

BuZz

@Retrodade I have tested with headphones plugged into audio jack. This is running on Buster with a RPI4. I went into RetroPie-Setup and Configuration/Tools and audiosettings - switching audio to the jack. The audio worked fine with my test video, so I will need your video to test as I can't reproduce that issue here.

What are you using for background music within emulationstation ? That's not a standard part of RetroPie.

BuZz

@Retrodade The fix for not ending the video early for Buster on the pi4 is now included in the latest RetroPie-Setup. You can update RetroPie-Setup and re-install the splashscreen (or do a full update) to check if it's still ok.

Retrodade

@BuZz
ok
here is our splash screen,
https://mega.nz/file/8IlzwTBA#aUjVbBeb-4DQQEj8xSoNWYVBltmjS7KL7oIhzO5_ELg

our music player we installed somewhere in 2020, I believe it was mp3123 which always didnt start up for the video to end

hope this info helps

BuZz

@Retrodade It might specifically check for the previous player. I would need a link to the code used for the background music to know.

I will test with your video - thank you.

BuZz

@Retrodade ~~It doesn't look like I can just download the video from there directly without a mega account. Are you able to upload it somewhere else (Google drive, or somewhere with a direct download link) ?~~

[edit] My bad - I somehow downloaded it and didn't notice and then the download link disappeared. oops. I will test.

BuZz

@Retrodade Audio works fine for me with that video.

What's the output of vlc --version from the console on your system?

Retrodade

@BuZz ok great

I thought it was mp3123
id have to ask the wife, but our music is in a BGM folder so im going with BGM here is quick install link

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/617tnn/quick_and_easy_guide_to_adding_music_to/

BuZz

@Retrodade Looking at the link you need to change the code.

where is has:

while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
(sleep 10; mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1) &

You would need to change this to

while pgrep vlc >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
(sleep 10; mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1) &

Retrodade

@BuZz Thanks!

UPDATE:
the splash video plays full to end
the Emulation Station music now waits for the video to end
only I have no audio yet for the splash-video
mine.mp4 or a default splash video- carbon video.mp4

BuZz

@Retrodade I need your vlc version (see post (above) which may help.

Have you made sure audio is set to headphone jack in audiosettings? I assume it must be since you have audio in EmulationStation but worth checking.

Also please post the output of a aplay -l

Retrodade

@BuZz

UPDATE

the Update that removed the Omnix player changed audio to HDMI, removing my Headphones setting
SOLVED! my splash has audio again

So the "retro pie Set Up Script" update Removed of the one player to the VLC changed my head jack to default HDMI
Thank you so much!

BuZz

@Retrodade There isn't anything in the code I can think of that would cause that but I'll keep a note in case it crops up again. Glad it's sorted! :-)