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    Startup Splash Screen/Video Glitched and Corrupted

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    • Acropolis40
      Acropolis40 last edited by Acropolis40

      I have a Odroid XU4 and have just installed Recalbox on the SD card but every time I start it it has this really weird flickering effect and glitch. I hope someone knows more about this than me and can help fix it.
      Thanks
      PS here is a video of whats happening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTSuKfh5aII (epilepsy warning)
      this also hapens on all videos and pictures not just this one.

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      • Gaetan
        Gaetan Theme moderator @Acropolis40 last edited by

        @acropolis40 Hi, at this time this bug is not fix yet, it's related to Odroid XU4. Could be fix in a further release.
        Meawhile, don't worry and have a good game 🙂

        Boards : Now: Nuc i7 7567u // Past: Rpi3 B, Rpi3 B+, Odroid xu4
        Controllers : Ps3 dualshock, 8bitdo SFC30 pro, Snes wired controller

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        • Substring
          Substring @Acropolis40 last edited by

          @acropolis40 known problem, and it's a GPU driver problem, hardly any chance to be fixed before a loooooooooooooooooong time

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          • Acropolis40
            Acropolis40 last edited by

            Well that sucks I really like the Recalbox OS and this issue is the only thing that is stopping me from sticking with it . But I was trying to find a work around so I deleted everything out of the splash screen folder but when the system booted up this time it still displayed the corrupted image so is there another splash screen folder located somewhere else I hope if I delete this it should only display a black screen.
            On further note the Batocera OS that I believe is baced of Recalbox does not have this issue so maybe the devs can talk to those guys about borrowing some of there driver's I could be mistaken though.
            Thanks

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              Substring @Acropolis40 last edited by

              @acropolis40 we'll never ever talk with batocera. Never in my life

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              • Acropolis40
                Acropolis40 @Substring last edited by

                @substring did they steal your OS

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                • Substring
                  Substring @Acropolis40 last edited by

                  @acropolis40 long story, no need to brag about it

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                  • Acropolis40
                    Acropolis40 @Substring last edited by

                    @substring Ok then thanks for the response guess i'l just have to try to find a work around.

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                    • HapHzrd
                      HapHzrd last edited by

                      I am having this same issue. As a temporary measure, I just removed the startup video while I wait for a fix.

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                      • Acropolis40
                        Acropolis40 @HapHzrd last edited by

                        @haphzrd Same but i'm still getting the same issue if its not a problem could you tell me exactly what files you deleted.
                        Thanks

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                        • user_ex
                          user_ex @Acropolis40 last edited by user_ex

                          @acropolis40 @HapHzrd I setted system.splash.length=-1 in recalbox.conf
                          That disabled video (against description) and no flicker at startup.

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                          • TobyRieper
                            TobyRieper last edited by

                            Any news from devs on this? I did try to make the duration that ES would play the video for longer but that didn't help. What you can do is replace the start up video with an mp4 that's just sound. Then you get a nice start up tune without fear of having a seizure and it's better than having nout at all.

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                            • Solo Ripper
                              Solo Ripper last edited by

                              Shouldn’t this be given some kind of priority so no one has an epileptic seizure? 😕

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                              • paradadf
                                paradadf Staff @Solo Ripper last edited by

                                @solo-ripper have you tried with the latest beta?

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                                • Solo Ripper
                                  Solo Ripper @paradadf last edited by

                                  @paradadf There’s a beta for the XU4? I thought it was only for the pi b+. Thanks.

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                                  • littlebalup
                                    littlebalup last edited by

                                    I looked into that.

                                    At startup, on odroid, the S02splash script starts the splash mp4 video, in background process, using ffplay for x seconds (set to 20 by default. see recalbox.conf, system.splash.length parameter).
                                    Meantime the video is running, others startup scripts are running including the S31emulationstation script that display version logo (that is useless as the S02splash script do it after the splash video...) and start emulationstation without to wait the splash mp4 video finish. Making flickering effects.
                                    Said simpler, ffplay output is in conflict with fbv (via showlogo.sh) and emulationstation boot logo as it's displayed in the same time.

                                    Waiting a real fix you can do either of the following trick to display splash video properly:

                                    A simple trick is to not run the splash video in background so the other startup scripts will not run untill the video is finished. Boot process will be longer as nothing else will append the time the video is running.
                                    Open a ssh session on your recalbox then run :
                                    mount -o remount rw, /
                                    cd /etc/init.d
                                    nano S02splash

                                    Edit the file as shown bellow

                                    do_ffmpeg_start () {
                                        if ! `which ffplay >/dev/null` || [[ ! -f $video ]] ; then
                                            return
                                        fi
                                        ffplay_opts="-hide_banner -autoexit"
                                        ffplay_srt="subtitles=/recalbox/system/resources/splash/recalboxintro.srt:force_style='FontName=/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf,Fontsize=10'"
                                        ffplay $ffplay_opts -vf "$ffplay_srt" "$video" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
                                        PID=$!
                                        count=0
                                        if [[ $videolength -gt -1 ]]; then
                                            while [[ ! -f "/tmp/emulationstation.ready" && ! -e "/var/run/kodi.msg" && $count -lt $(($videolength*10)) ]]; do
                                                sleep 0.1
                                                ((count++))
                                            done
                                        fi
                                        do_ffmpeg_stop $PID
                                        show_logo &  # <-- edit here by adding the "&"
                                    }
                                    

                                    ...

                                    case "$1" in
                                        start)
                                            if [[ `cat /recalbox/recalbox.arch` == "rpi"* ]] ; then
                                                ( do_omx_start ; show_logo ) &
                                            else
                                                ( wait_for_fb ; do_ffmpeg_start ) #&  # <-- edit here by removing or commenting the "&"
                                            fi
                                            ;;
                                        stop)
                                    	   ;;
                                        restart|reload)
                                    	   ;;
                                        *)
                                    esac
                                    

                                    Save and close it with STRG + X
                                    You can customize the length of the splash video by editing your /recalbox/share/system/recalbox.conf file, system.splash.length parameter. 12 seconds is a good choice.

                                    --

                                    Another way is to modify S31emulationstation script to wait ffplay finished (or killed) before to start emulationstation. So the others sartup scripts will not wait video completion.
                                    Open an ssh session on your recalbox then run :
                                    mount -o remount rw, /
                                    cd /etc/init.d
                                    nano S31emulationstation

                                    Edit the file as shown bellow

                                    case "$1" in
                                      start)
                                    	enabled="`$systemsetting -command load -key system.es.atstartup`"
                                    	videoMode="`$systemsetting -command load -key system.es.videomode`"
                                    	if [ "$enabled" != "0" ];then
                                    		while [ "$(pidof ffplay)" ]; do	#<-- eddit here by adding this
                                    			sleep 0.1		#<-- eddit here by adding this
                                    		done				#<-- eddit here by adding this
                                    		/recalbox/scripts/showlogo.sh & # In case the logo has been removed, let's put it back again
                                    		echo $videoMode | grep -qE "(CEA|DMT) [0-9]{1,2} (HDMI|DVI)"
                                    		[ $? = "0" ] && tvservice -e "$videoMode"
                                    		settings_lang="`$systemsetting -command load -key system.language`"
                                    		recallog "starting emulationstation with lang = $settings_lang"
                                    		HOME=/recalbox/share/system LANG="${settings_lang}.UTF-8" SDL_VIDEO_GL_DRIVER=/usr/lib/libGLESv2.so SDL_VIDEO_EGL_DRIVER=/usr/lib/libGLESv2.so SDL_NOMOUSE=1 start-stop-daemon -S -q -m -p /var/run/emulationstation.pid  --exec /usr/bin/emulationstation &
                                    	fi
                                    	;;
                                    

                                    Save and close it with STRG + X

                                    --

                                    In both case, you can still customize the length of the splash video by editing your /recalbox/share/system/recalbox.conf file, system.splash.length parameter.
                                    12 seconds is a good choice.

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