New ComicBook Video Splashscreen

hansolo77

Yup, that's what I just did. I tried doing a bunch of crazy-ass symlinking, but none of it worked. Mostly because I'm not familiar enough with Linux yet to know how to do it. I thought I could create a link in the /opt/blah-blah folder that points to a more easily accessible folder (/home/pi). But I couldn't figure out the syntax right. No big deal. I got it working now. I wish there was a better way to handle all that, but my case is individual. I highly doubt it comes up frequently enough to warrant changing any underlying script codes. I mean, how many people have a set up like mine, where they have the roms and videos stored on an external usb hard drive, 1 default controller with 6 dedicated system controllers for when I'm feeling "the mood", a special requirement for "fancy" looking interface, ability to earn achievements, and all kept inside an old NES case? :) Still, I like the challenge and I'm learning a lot!

sirhenrythe5th

Like that splash Video very much, but have great problems using it.
But this is for sure a general problem with my specific setup: i tried other mp4s and get the same results.
The first seconds everything is fine, but then 3/4 of the picture looks like it got ECM-jammed by an alien mothership landing near my house.

I allready searched the Forum and tried to modify the autostart.txt by forcing emulationstation to wait till the video is finished.
Works!, but...then emulationstation is of course not loaded in background, something that i dont want this way.

Someone also mentioned that it would be a solution to modify the flags concerning the buffer of omxplayer.
Does anyone know where i can find them?

Besides of that: AWESOME Splashvideo!!!, great work!

TMNTturtlguy

@sirhenrythe5th Thanks for the kind words. Can you share the basic info about your system as stated in the "read this first" section. It would be good to know what pi you are running, how it was installed etc. Since you are having issues with all splash screen videos you definitely have an issue with your setup/install. I would recommend starting a new thread in the help section and provide pertinent details there as this issue is not concerning the ComicBook Splash Screen, but your setup. Thanks

sirhenrythe5th

@TMNTturtlguy i will do that!, thank you for your advise and keep up your amazing work! 😊

cafarellidigital

@TMNTturtlguy Nice splash screen, looks great! Did you make it yourself, or did it start from a template? I'm going to guess After Effects?

Although at almost a minute long, it's perhaps too long. I'd love to see a shorter version at around 20-30 seconds. Maybe removing a couple of video sections, or simplifying camera moves so that they're a bit quicker, or just time-remapping it to be a bit faster. Perhaps a little bit of everything.

Sections that are ripe for shortening/simplifying:
0:04 - 0:09
0:11 - 0:15
0:21 - 0:23

I think everything can be tightened a bit, but those sections specifically.

I'm sure you're probably editing to the music a bit, but maybe the music can be edited to be shorter as well. Take the beginning third and blend it into the end third, and you've removed the middle section of the song and cut down the music to 35-40 seconds. Do a few more edits like that were appropriate, and you might be able to get the music down to 25-30 without sacrificing it's integrity.

Well done, thanks for sharing!

alphatoanant

@TMNTturtlguy wow this. is. awesome.

Excellent work

Hex

@TMNTturtlguy It is awesom that you ended the video on ES screen so it blends nicely.

chrisdodgen

Ok, this is ridiculous.

Next-level shit right here.

Feel free to rest one of these days, Turtlguy.

Kischa

@TMNTturtlguy Wow what a great splashscreen!! Thanks!! Btw what Zelda game did you use in the video?

pjft

I don't know how I missed this, but well done! This is going straight to my splash screen videos:)

Notes for others:

this needs to be on the SD card, as it usually runs before the drivers are mounted. Had the same problems in the past.
if you're having trouble with OMX Player when ES is loading in the background, add disable_overscan=1 to your /boot/config.txt file. It should help.

Happy Sunday!

TMNTturtlguy

@Kischa zelda ocarina of time for N64

Kischa

@TMNTturtlguy said in New ComicBook Video Splashscreen:

@Kischa zelda ocarina of time for N64

Thanks!! 😊

sirhenrythe5th

@pjft solved my problem another way:

I editet the /etc/init.d/asplashscreen.sh an removed the syntax "-b " from commandline #39.
It's the one handling the omx-player.
Dont know why, but all Videos run great now and emulationstation is loaded in background.
Great! 👍☺

pjft

@sirhenrythe5th correct. -B is no longer needed with the black splash screen, and can indeed cause problems on the display, as it forces adding an extra black layer. Good call.

Maybe it's worth bringing that to the actual splash screen code.

sirhenrythe5th

@pjft think so too, hopefully someone from the the dev-crew reads this.

pjft

@sirhenrythe5th well, slightly tangentially off-track, but would you have videos in your gamelists?

Would I be able to interest you in helping test out an upcoming release that uses OMX Player for screensaver purposes?

I'm trying to determine whether there is at least a way to systematically ensure that this doesn't happen on the screensaver. Let me know if that's the case, and I'm happy to provide more detail.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10719/help-testing-random-video-screensaver-on-main-branch

Let me know.

Basically, it's to test whether it works well at the moment, for you, with the option to show game info ON and OFF. Likely "ON" won't work, as it's similar to -b, but want to check that since you were affected by it!

Let me know if you'd rather have me provide you with two separate builds to test - though, as I said, this will only work if you do have videos on your gamelists.

Thanks!

sirhenrythe5th

@pjft thank you very much for your offer!

I seem to be one of those users that spends more time in setting everything up than playing games 😊.
In fact i just finished my setup last friday and backuped my "master - image".
I took one year of tweaking and optimizing dozends of little things.

Concerning Themes & Videos: there are a lot of great themes out there and I tried most of them.
But i have to damit: i like "Carbon no Metadata" the most.
So i did not think about Videos in the gamelist till now.
Therefore i spent months for fetching images for every game in my list
I was never satisfied with the scrapers and because i also use ScummVM and MS Dos in Retropie a lot of games werent recognized at all.
Now i have great and also some unusal pictures in my gamelist.

So on the one handside i am very happy with it, but on the other handside i need a new mission 😂.

I thought about background music as the next step, but why not Videos in the gamelist? 😉

I will think about it and keep you informed!

Have a nice weekend and kind regards from europe.

pjft

@sirhenrythe5th A new mission is always positive :)

I hear @sselph 's scraper recently added support for video scraping, so that would be a good start.

Also, if you're on Windows, Universal XML Scraper by @screech I believe also has video scraping support, though I'm not on Windows so I haven't used it myself and can't confirm.

I believe EmuMovies is a good source for most videos, and if you decide to go premium they have a program (Windows only) that does some sort of matching of your roms to the videos and downloads those only.

So yeah, plenty of options. Let us know how it goes, and greetings from Europe as well! Happy Sunday :)

N.A.R.E.K.96

this is great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thadialator

I registered just to say thank you so much! I just started venturing with EmulationStation and this immediately became my go to theme. Now that you have this splash screen I may never change it. :-)