Auto-play video before loading ROM

[soggypete]

Does anyone know a smooth way of loading up a video before loading a ROM?

For example, every time I select a psx rom I'd like to load the original playstation logo.

Any thoughts?

[herb_fargus]

@sphirst https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand#adding-custom-launching-images

[soggypete]

You're an absolute legend. Will this work for videos too?

[Concat]

No, I don't think so. You would probably have to write your own scripts for something like that.

The PS intro does appear when resetting a game, and I think other emus have the option to turn it on when starting a game... but maybe no Rearmed.

[herb_fargus]

@sphirst you may have to code in a script for onstart that calls omxplayer

[synack]

@sphirst You can accomplish this by editing your runcommand-onstart.sh script, as @herb_fargus mentioned.

1. edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh

nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh

2. then paste the following into script (it checks if the system is psx, if so, play the mp4):

[[ $1 == *psx* ]] && omxplayer -o both -b --layer 10001 /path/to/your/ps1.mp4

3. lastly, which I'm not sure is even necessarily, but make it executable.

chmod a+x /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh

In case you need it, here is the ps1 boot screen (mp4 format): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23611685/video/ps1.mp4?dl=1