[quote=81986]this does not work like I thought, its the problem I have now, the emulation station screen loads OVER the video, I can still hear my video playing behind it…. 
not to discredit anyone, but I would be more than happy to put emulation station as a logo on the video. but I thought the video would just over write the ES splash, in 2.3 it doens seem to do that, unless I really missed something….
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Did you make sure to put add the --layer 10000 in the omxplayer -o hdmi --layer 10000 /home/pi/splash_screen_video.mp4 command? If so, try making the layer number higher and see if that works, maybe try 50000.