Run Command Video Splashscreens

[MJTKG]

Hey everyone! Recently finished setting up the run command slash screen following a youtube tutorial to get images to show before a game launches instead of the configuration screen. I was wondering if its possible to show a video instead of a still image using this same setup. Currently it only grabs launching.png to .jpg and I don't know how to configure it to take a .mp4 or if thats' even possible. I followed and replied to an older thread but couldn't find anything there either. I'm currently running a Pi3b on the latest retropie firmware. Thank you.

Tutorial I followed:

Original old thread:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4611/runcommand-system-splashscreens

[sleve_mcdichael]

Here is the part of /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh that displays the launching image using either feh or fbi. If you're good with scripting, maybe you could jigger it to play a video with vlc or omxplayer, instead:

function show_launch() {
    local images=()

    if [[ "$IS_SYS" -eq 1 && "$USE_ART" -eq 1 ]]; then
        # if using art look for images in paths for es art.
        images+=(
            "$HOME/RetroPie/roms/$SYSTEM/images/${ROM_BN}-image"
            "$HOME/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/$SYSTEM/${ROM_BN}-image"
            "$HOME/.emulationstation/downloaded_media/$SYSTEM/screenshots/${ROM_BN}"
            "$HOME/RetroPie/roms/$SYSTEM/media/screenshots/${ROM_BN}"
        )
    fi

    # look for custom launching images
    if [[ "$IS_SYS" -eq 1 ]]; then
        images+=(
            "$HOME/RetroPie/roms/$SYSTEM/images/${ROM_BN}-launching"
            "$CONF_ROOT/launching"
        )
    fi
    [[ "$IS_PORT" -eq 1 ]] && images+=("$CONFIGDIR/ports/launching")
    images+=("$CONFIGDIR/all/launching")

    local image
    local path
    local ext
    for path in "${images[@]}"; do
        for ext in jpg png; do
            if [[ -f "$path.$ext" ]]; then
                image="$path.$ext"
                break 2
            fi
        done
    done

    if [[ -n "$image" ]]; then
        # if we are running under X use feh otherwise try and use fbi
        if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]]; then
            feh -F -N -Z -Y -q "$image" & &>/dev/null
            IMG_PID=$!
            sleep "$IMAGE_DELAY"
        else
            fbi -1 -t "$IMAGE_DELAY" -noverbose -a "$image" </dev/tty &>/dev/null
        fi
    elif [[ "$DISABLE_MENU" -ne 1 && "$USE_ART" -ne 1 ]]; then
        local launch_name
        if [[ -n "$ROM_BN" ]]; then
            launch_name="$ROM_BN ($EMULATOR)"
        else
            launch_name="$EMULATOR"
        fi
        DIALOGRC="$CONFIGDIR/all/runcommand-launch-dialog.cfg" dialog --infobox "\nLaunching $launch_name ...\n\nPress a button to configure\n\nErrors are logged to $LOG" 9 60
    fi
}

You can see where it shows the paths and filename-patterns to look for art, (near the top) and where it defines the accepted extensions (for ext in jpg png; do). You'd want to change this part to include mp4, or whatever format your videos will be in, and possibly also add paths above to include ${ROM_BN}-video or similar if that's how you'll name them.

Then there's the part where the image is displayed with the feh or fbi commands. You'll need to craft a command with the proper options to show your brief video snap, probably with either vlc or omxplayer. Probably also a check on which extension is used to determine whether to use the video or image command, unless you're going to only have videos, and then you'll need to remove the parts referencing images at all, including the "ports" and system-wide launch images (or change them to use the videos too.)