Modified Background Music Script with added overlays!

madmodder123

@zaibatsu
~~not sure why it says pngview-n, in the BGM.py script does it say: overlay_pngview_location = '/usr/local/bin/pngview' ?~~
Ah I think I got it fixed, download the BGM.py file, replace your current one, and then try it.

@cyperghost
If you were in much pain as I was you would be swearing too.
I'll think about buying that case.

zaibatsu

@madmodder123 Now I get this alt text Looks like it still has something to do with pngview-n or something. I checked that folder and its exactly 'pngview'.

Marco

@madmodder123
I created this account just to thank you for your work :) Hope you can recover fully and fast from your accident!
I would like to report one thing that might be useful: in emulatorlist string array from BGM.py i noticed it missed the pcsx-rearmed emulator, which is different from the lr-pcsx-emulator one, if you want to add that in the name is "pcsx". It's probably 2-sec work for you but i had trouble finding the actual name of the emulator so i just wanted to help as i could.. I'm no programmer so sorry for non-technical language :/

@zaibatsu
I had your same problem.. Probably in these days pngview updated so that it no loger supports the -n command (however this is just an assumption). I solved by modifying madmodder123's BGM.py at line 179 by removing such command. So modifying the line from

show_overlay = overlay_pngview_location + " -n -d 0 -b 0x0000 -l 15000 -y " + overlay_y_offset + " -x " + overlay_x_offset + " " + overlay_tmp_file + " &"

to

show_overlay = overlay_pngview_location + " -d 0 -b 0x0000 -l 15000 -y " + overlay_y_offset + " -x " + overlay_x_offset + " " + overlay_tmp_file + " &"

And it starts working again. Hope i could help you :)

zaibatsu

@Marco Thanks! It's working just fine now. I knew it was something simple but I wouldn't have known how to fix it. Thanks again

madmodder123

@Marco
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I removed the "-n" in the code for now, I also added pcsx-rearmed to the emulator list (along with some other optional games/apps/emulators).
If you run into any more that don't stop the music when launched all you have to do is connect via SSH and type in the "top" command which will show you a list of all the process names.
Then all you do is add it to this line:

emulatornames = ["retroarch","ags","uae4all2","uae4arm","capricerpi","linapple","hatari","stella","atari800","xroar","vice","daphne","reicast","pifba","osmose","gpsp","jzintv","basiliskll","mame","advmame","dgen","openmsx","mupen64plus","gngeo","dosbox","ppsspp","simcoupe","scummvm","snes9x","pisnes","frotz","fbzx","fuse","gemrb","cgenesis","zdoom","eduke32","lincity","love","kodi","alephone","micropolis","openbor","openttd","opentyrian","cannonball","tyrquake","ioquake3","residualvm","xrick","sdlpop","uqm","stratagus","wolf4sdl","solarus","drastic","coolcv","PPSSPPSDL","moonlight","Xorg","smw","omxplayer.bin","wolf4sdl-3dr-v14","wolf4sdl-gt-v14","wolf4sdl-spear","wolf4sdl-sw-v14","xvic","xvic cart","xplus4","xpet","x128","x64sc","x64","prince","fba2x","steamlink","pcsx-rearmed","limelight","sdltrs","ti99sm","dosbox-sdl2","minivmac","quasi88","xm7","yabause","abuse","cdogs-sdl","cgenius","digger","gemrb","hcl","love","love-0.10.2","openblok","openfodder","srb2","yquake2","amiberry","zesarux","dxx-rebirth","zesarux"]

If anyone runs into some that aren't on the list, please let me know and i'll update the script!
I might try to work on the script more this weekend if I have time.

@cyperghost
Oh and I ended up buying an OGST kit for ODROID, so I may work on that ;)

madmodder123

Preview of OGST script
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madmodder123

@cyperghost
Added a custom pixel font and made the default colors look better:
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cyperghost

@madmodder123 That looks really good ;) I think that is a good mod for the ODROID and OGST case owner

madmodder123

I think I got the OGST case code all finalized, i'll do some testing to make sure everything still works on the Pi and possibly release the code later this week.
Also i'm still having problems trying to write images to the framebuffer for the ODROID and other linux systems (basically what pngview does for the Pi). If anyone wants to help I would appreciate it :)

Cascote

Hi all, sorry to revive this old post. I currently using this beautiful py script but I'm having an issue, music speed is slowed down, some songs more than others. What could that be?

Cascote

@Cascote
Solved: The issue lies on the Sample rate of the Mp3 file. It seems that Pygame is not able to correctly play anything that's not on 44100Hz Rate, so I Resampled the mp3s that were not on that rate using Audacity

@legacy said in Modified Background Music Script with added overlays!:

I click a game, the video loading screen kicks in and the music fades out.
Black screen appears to load the game, but the music kicks in for 1 second and fades out, then the game loads.
is there a fix for this. Thank you

I know, I know, you have probably solved this or not interested on it anymore, but for whomever needs it, I had this issue too, I solved it by adding the following lines at the end of the runcommands scripts:
runcommand-onend.sh

pkill -CONT python

runcommand-onstart.sh

sleep 1
pkill -STOP python