mpd for bacground music

langest

Hello!
I installed mpd to get bg music in ES.
I added "mpc pause" to the runcommand-onstart.sh and "mpc play" to the runcommand-onend.sh and everything is working just as intended.
Except one thing. I use splash videos and can't figure out how to start mpd when the video ends.
I have tried to add it to rc.local, on this line https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/3a35c1b25ce051507981fd310bbd1a1573032f26/scriptmodules/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh#L35
but it always starts during the splash video, not after.

Is there a script that is called once the splash ends? Or any other way to call "mpc play" once the video has ended?

Thanks!

mitu

@langest said in mpd for bacground music:

Is there a script that is called once the splash ends? Or any other way to call "mpc play" once the video has ended?

Use the autostart script that launches Emulationstation and add your mpd start script just before ES starts.

langest

@mitu said in mpd for bacground music:

Use the autostart script that launches Emulationstation and add your mpd start script just before ES starts.

Problem is that ES starts before the video ends so then the music still starts in the middle of the video. :/

mitu

@langest said in mpd for bacground music:

Is there a script that is called once the splash ends? Or any other way to call "mpc play" once the video has ended?

The do it the other way around - start mpd in the splashscreen script, right after omxplayer finishes playing the video.

langest

That is what I initially tried. But I probably got the wrong script, or the wrong place in the script. This is where I tried to add it. But it still starts too early. Maybe it is not the correct place.
Which script is it that launches the splashscreen?

mitu

@langest said in mpd for bacground music:

This is where I tried to add it.

That seems the right place to do it.

langest

I tried commenting out the omxplayer command and the video still plays so my guess is that it is run from somewhere else. But I have no clue where.
I ran silver searcher to try and find where it could be, without any luck.

mitu

@langest Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. What image did you use to install RetroPie ?

langest

Solved it.
The script was installed in /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh not the one in RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh
Now it works. Thanks for the help.