@hsus I doubt it, and why update if everything works as you would like? I haven’t updated my builds in a year or so. Too afraid some game (especially arcade) may just stop working.

@mitu not until now, let's see if it works!

How to I save once I've done the edit?

Can I just say that this was happening to me as well and once I followed this it now works perfectly! Thank You @mitu You're An MVP!

okay i have mode you script a bit
im using ubuntu 19-04 x64
make a folder named splashscreens in $HOME/RetroPie and put all your videos in that folder
put this in you script
chmod 755 you script

this script plays a random video form this folder and load emulation station
the only isuse i have whit this is it show a little splash screen on top of video that emulation station is load-et, but it diapers ;)

#!/bin/bash #hides the menubar and desktop #gnome-terminal --full-screen --hide-menubar #starts Retropie gnome-terminal --full-screen --hide-menubar -- emulationstation & #Plays video in VLC then exits. Replace quoted part with your video's location. vlc --random --play-and-stop --play-and-exit --fullscreen --video-on-top --no-video-title-show "$HOME/RetroPie/splashscreens" exit

@fnkngrv if you update it will wipe the old file and install a new one on the new location.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

need more info about your setup

@MrJordaaany let me know if you run into any issues.

One bug that I haven't been able to track down is when browsing one of the roms that has a <video> tag, OMX player attempts to load it but then the screen jostles around and boom, a black screen which doesn't go away until I navigate away from the rom.

This is one of the reasons I didn't map the videos to their actual rom, I didn't want to see that behavior when I was browsing - with this setup I just need to avoid the last section of the Atari2600, not a huge deal.

Fails:

OMX Player (HW Acceleration): On Screensaver use OMX: On Theme: Pixel

Works:

OMX Player (HW Acceleration): Off Screensaver use OMX: On Theme: Pixel

It works but without OMX the playback painfully slow when browsing, screensaver functionality is unaffected as that's still set to use OMX.

One last thing - I recommend picking a donorRom that's fun or playable - in case someone turns on the screensaver controls, in which case pressing start will launch the fake entry. Just my luck the one rom I pick (X-man) turns out to be early video game smut, who knew!?

@meleu I need overscan though :/
On every single side I need -55px

Nice idea. "Parody" splash screen are fun and look cool, a you're right, RetroPie should have it's own unique flavor. Thanks for sharing!

@Dr-Ocelot I dig these a lot, very nice work!

@AlexMurphy Thanks. I'll try that tonight.

@mikeh1982 you can also use sites that you out in the YouTube URL and it will download a mp4

Cool idea. Love all the classic Lucasfilm/Lucasarts adventure games and for me Maniac Mansion was the first one that got me into adventure gaming so this is an instalike from me :)

@mikeh1982 Transferring the ROMs via USB is done automatically so there is no need to look at the directories, you don't need to manually move anything. If you use samba share over the network then the 4 directories are automatically shared to allow you to edit, transfer, delete, manage etc... Just as a tip, you can add extra folders / directories to be shared over the network. If you go to /etc/samba and open smb.conf you can add entries, eg

[home] comment = home path = "/home/pi" writeable = yes guest ok = yes create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 force user = pi

Or add any other path you want to access...

@herb_fargus said in Video Splash and Silent Boot:

@zoop a few thoughts:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7826/use-usb-automount-and-loading-splashscreens-from-sd-card-possible

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7739/video-splash-screen-problems

I haven't tried from a usb but hopefully those posts will give you something to play with. interesting the overscan thing fixed it. I guess I've always had it disabled so I never noticed.

If its working for you then I don't see why there is any problem with your implementation.

Thanks for the reply. The first link you provided offered a decent solution. It seems the trouble is in randomizing from the USB. When running a single video it has never failed, but it just wouldn't work with the randomizer.

That said, following the advice in the article I moved my videos to the /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/ folder and deleted the default splashscreens I don't want and everything seems to be in order.

On usb the folder is named splashscreens. I will eliminate the plural as a test but doubt that is the issue because the folder is displayed as a selection and appears correct. The good news is I don't plan on changing the splashscreens too frequently so this solution will work for now.

Thanks again! I hope this thread helps someone else.

Hmm. I followed your advice and copied the video-splashscreen over to /home/pi/splashscreens and changed the line in /etc/splashscreen.list accordingly. Strangely this doesn't work, the splashscreens never appears.

I even double- and triple-checked the paths and tried different folders, but the splashscreen won't show up.

Edit:

Just got it to work. After copying it over to /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/ to the default splashscreens and selecting it it works like a charm!

@mattrixk Of course I did. LOL. Why else would I post it :P

@batesman the list file is if you want a custom set of choices. You can manually specify which images you want it pull instead of the whole folder