Trouble with splash screen (resolution ?)

[MadCow]

Hello everyone,

I have a trouble regarding recalbox loading.
Indeed, while recalbox is loading, there are funny splash screen videos before ES starts.

It works well on my old 19" DVI screen (pluged with a HDMI to DVI plug converter), I can see splash screen (short videos).

But it doesn't work properly with my other 19" LCD screens with only VGA plugs (pluged with a HDML to VGA plug converter).
I tried with a viewsonic one and a acer one. Both have the same issue :

• Screens are displaying recalbox black screens when power one (with a white blinking command cursor).
• Then switch on splash screens (but no display) and screens monitors are displaying error messages. For Viewsonic : "Out of Range". For Acer : "Frequencies are not supported".
• Then ES version and progress bar
• Then Recalbox is up

I'm using recalbox 7.1 on a Raspberry Pi 4, 64 GB SD Card.

Do you have any idea of the reason of issues on splash screens ? Is it the result of a bad screen configuration in config.txt or recalbox.txt ?

Thanks for your help.

[ian57]

@MadCow hi there. In config.txt add :

#video mode DMT
hdmi_group=2
#1280x1024 60
hdmi_mode=35

and in recalbox.conf

global.videomode=DMT 35 HDMI

should work

[MadCow]

Thanks a lot @ian57 , but I've already did that.
In fact, it's just during splash screen that my screens (plugged in VGA) are not able to display anything.
In recalbox/ES, it's ok. I can see User Interface properly.

Any other track or idea ?

Thanks again for your help.

[leahcim66]

Splash videos are in 1080p, that your screen doesn't support.
Try to convert the videos in 720p (If you don't know haw to do this, I can send to you a video for testing) then put the files in share/bootvideos, and change in recalbox.conf this line :

system.splash.select=custom

[ian57]

@MadCow thats strange becaus I use viewsonic 19" screen with these parameter and everithing is working. BUT i use hdmi vga converter. I think we should look at dvi option

did you try to add

hdmi_drive=1 # force dvi

and

hdmi_force_hotplug=1 

[MadCow]

@leahcim66 thanks for your proposal. Could you please share it ?
Will try this.

[MadCow]

@ian57 I will try also and let you know. Are you running with Recalbox 7.1 ?
Thanks for your great support ...

[leahcim66]

@MadCow Try this one. If it works, I can provide a 70 videos pack.

https://we.tl/t-lurEYVPEjb

[MadCow]

Thanks guys.
Custom videos works ! It's not the good format (my 19" screens are 1280x1024. 4:3 or 5:4 ratio ?) it's compressed, but can see the video on my both screens.

@ian57, could you please share the package you mentioned ?

Thanks for your great support.

[ian57]

@MadCow which package ?

[leahcim66]

@ian57 I think he means the package I metionned. Is it allowed to share boot videos here ?

[ian57]

@leahcim66 Yes I thinks so if there are not copyrigthed.

[leahcim66]

Original bootvideos converted to 720p + 5 bootvideos I made myself.

https://we.tl/t-U1dz2uG5z6

[ian57]

@leahcim66 I saw the "Universal" intro. Which soft did you use? I made this one using Blender : https://mega.nz/file/30kVECyb#_aefzs-WFwMmQfI8-U5OC4JoVKspfCbPZItVy5TYMZ8

[leahcim66]

Mine is from https://ivipid.com/

[MadCow]

Many many thanks guys !
Thanks for sharing your experience and tips !