Video Splash Screen Not Working Right

[NecroCorey]

@synack Ok thanks a ton you were crazy helpful. I must have misunderstood one of those guides I read. I thought if I played a long enough video it would go right to the main menu.

If there's a way to mark this 'solved' I don't know how to do it but this is super solved.

[synack]

@NecroCorey I believe that behavior (playing the video while the ES system loads) does work with some people's setups, but not all -- including my own. I'm not exactly sure of the details there.

My suggestion was mainly to address the issue you were having with the "screen going screwy" :-)

[herb_fargus]

@synack I think another solution was to remove the layer setting (-b 10000 part)from the OMX call but is been a while since I've messed with it. There's probably a reference to it somewhere else on the forum

[envj88]

@synack hi, I had the same problem as well and tried this and it worked but will not boot into emulation station after. After the word "done" is there just a space or should there be something else?

[envj88]

nevermind, I got it. Had to make emulation station on the 2nd line

[DD-Indeed]

Sorry to bumb the topic, but I followed the instructions and what it does now, is that it won't start the EmulationStation automatically. After the video, it just shows the command console after logging in and I have to manully start the ES everytime.

Edit: It was not specified in the second post, that do I need to put those commands into different lines or do I have to keep them on the same line, but put the new one before the ES one ?

[Puritan007]

@dd-indeed Add an & symbol. like this.

sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null;
do sleep 1;
done &
emulationstation #auto

ctrl+ x

Y

enter

sudo reboot now

[green_reaper]

i am also having the same issue.

im on emulation station v2.6.3RP
retropie set up script 4.2.22

i placed the files within the retropie folder/ splashscreen / comicbook splash using cyberduck (the same way i place everything else and no other issues)

and activating via retropie -> splashscreens -> own/extra -> select comicbook splash.

here a youtube link to the issue in action

sorry about the air conditioner, and audio

[skoufix]

Instead of adding "&", add ";" as in:

while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done;
emulationstation #auto

This worked for me.

[RetroGamingFan]

@skoufix Thanks, the fixes above did not work for me but yours did. I'm glad to finally get rid of the startup glitch.