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    Changing splashscreen volume makes video stop playing

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      smatchymo
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      I'm trying to configure a third party image I had downloaded. The splashscreen was much louder than emulation station, so I went to change the volume by editing the asplashscreen.sh file. I added --vol -1150 to the end of the file and now the video doesn't play. I'm thinking I need to add this to the "omx string" maybe, but I'm not quite sure what that means. Is there a particular place I need to put this in order for the splashscreen video to keep loading on startup? Thanks!

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        ReadyPlayaWon Banned @smatchymo
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        @smatchymo

        Personally, since i'm comfortable with video encoding ... i would just re-encode the audio level (direct copy the video so no quality is lost) of the video file. Super easy and super quick with no messing around with code.

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          smatchymo
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          Thanks, but that presents other issues. With this being a third party image, there are a lot of weird things with it. I'm unable to log in with winSCP because I don't know the password. I added init=/bin/sh to my cmdline file, but it never boots. I get an initial spurt of code, then a black screen. I can't seem to find a Retropie-Setup folder either.

          It's hard to explain, but I would like to configure this third party image rather than build my own. I've done that on other pi's I own. I want to crack this nut...

          Edit: I'm able to access my pi via winSCP now. I changed the password via raspi-config. Not sure why google searches took me to init=/bin/sh. I've never played with encoding before, though. I'll look into it. First I need to see if the same issue exists in HDMI.

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            ReadyPlayaWon Banned @smatchymo
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            @smatchymo said in Changing splashscreen volume makes video stop playing:

            I've never played with encoding before, though. I'll look into it.

            the easiest way is using ffmpeg ... example below, lower the volume by 50db

            ffmpeg -i splashscreen.mp4 -af volume=-50dB -vcodec copy newsplashscreen.mp4

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              smatchymo @ReadyPlayaWon
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              @ReadyPlayaWon I'll keep that in mind in future situations, but I've had a chance to confirm and the video volume isn't an issue when in HDMI mode. The issue is only with the headphone jack. I'll continue looking for a programming solution.

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