Please ignore, I did what seemed most simple and plucked the functions I needed from the script and that seems to work.

#! /bin/bash function enable_plymouth_theme() { if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" echo "| Skipping Plymouth boot splash because no theme name was provided" echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" echo -e "Skipped\n\n" return 255 fi PLYMOUTH_THEME=$1 echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" echo "| Installing Plymouth boot splash and enabling theme '$PLYMOUTH_THEME'" echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" apt-get install -y $APT_RECOMMENDS plymouth plymouth-themes plymouth-x11 rm -rf /tmp/plymouth-themes git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/HerbFargus/plymouth-themes.git /tmp/plymouth-themes mv /tmp/plymouth-themes/* /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/$PLYMOUTH_THEME/$PLYMOUTH_THEME.plymouth 10 update-alternatives --set default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/$PLYMOUTH_THEME/$PLYMOUTH_THEME.plymouth update-initramfs -u echo -e "FINISHED enable_plymouth_theme \n\n" sleep 2 } # Hide Boot Messages function hide_boot_messages() { echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" echo "| Hiding boot messages" echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" # Hide kernel messages and blinking cursor via GRUB sed -i 's/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=".*"/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash vt.global_cursor_default=0"/g' /etc/default/grub update-grub # Hide fsck messages after Plymouth splash echo 'FRAMEBUFFER=y' > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash update-initramfs -u # Remove cloud-init to suppress its boot messages apt-get purge cloud-init -y rm -rf /etc/cloud/ /var/lib/cloud/ # Disable motd touch $USER_HOME/.hushlogin chown $USER:$USER $USER_HOME/.hushlogin echo -e "FINISHED hide_boot_messages \n\n" sleep 2 } enable_plymouth_theme "retropie-pacman" # See https://github.com/HerbFargus/plymouth-themes.git for other theme names hide_boot_messages

May be related to the new splashscreen version, that uses vlc instead of omxplayer. Can you add the rest of the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, particularly the exact RetroPie version you have installed ?

Do you have SSH enabled so you can run commands on the Pi connected via wireless ? What is the resolution of the screen and how is it conected to the Pi (HDMI/GPIO) ?

After more testing, it turns out one of the .jpg files included in the extras folder is causing the out-of-memory error in vlc.

Can you remove the iteboy-retro-collage.jpg file from $HOME/RetroPie/splashscreens/retropie-extra and re-run the preview of splashscreens ?

@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! :-)

That's ok, since vlc tries a different number of display options and they're not available. Can you run

dpkg -l | grep vlc

and 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)

@RapidEdwin08
What happens if /splashscreen is missing under supplementary in the OS.

@zoner said in Booting to the default Raspbian desktop.:

I may have misspoken.

I don't think so.

Do I understand you correctly that after installing RetroPie on Raspbian my desktop environment will remain the same?

Yes. You can configure how the system boots and what's started in the autostart configuration - by default no configuration is performed, so the current boot configuration is not modified.

Just for a test i set a 90-second duration.

on my Pi0W the splashscreen was shown for about 75-seconds.

on my Pi3B the splashscreen was shown for about 80-seconds.

So the timer is working for long durations, but it is just not accurate :)

No worries. I can live with it. As I mentioned, i just need about 30-40 seconds.

thanks again.

@arcadelover15 said in Custom Spalsh Screen - Retropie 4 Model b:

If anyone knows how I could fix this, that would be great.

You'll have to ask the vendor for that - RetroPie doesn't lock anything and certainly wouldn't prevent you from changing the splashscreen (see the docs).

Note that selling the RetroPie image is against the project's license, if your machine has also games included then it's probably illegally selling those games.

Lasagna.png

Better letter-crown positioning.

Neutopia 2.png
The logo wasn't too hard, but the cloudy background and rocks were a challenge!

@Manukan said in Splashscreen Video not playing every time:

@mitu It is still only playing every time, can I start this service earlier in the boot-process to make it more consistent?

Not sure what you mean, the splashscreen service is already started pretty early during the boot sequence.

@sleve_mcdichael Looks good !

@upjumptheboogie depending on the video player and your pi model, try lowering the video resolution and see if it helps.

@mitu The changes have to be made to/with the OMX player itself.

To get a random file from a list of files, you can use the same approach as the splashscreen command, using the shuf command:

file=$(find "/path/to/images" -maxdepth 1 -type f | shuf -n1) # link $file to system's `launching.png`. ln -sf "$file" "path_to_launch_image/launching.png"