New approach: plymouth splash screen.

[nilsbyte]

Hello,

during my time in developing the UI for EmulationStation I also have experimented to replace the static image overlay splash screen of RetroPie with an animated boot splash like in Debian or Red Hat Linux. These distributions use a tool called plymouth and its script language to display animated boot screens. I have made a boot screen featuring the Mushberry logo that was created by a member of this forum. Below the Mushberry there is a line of dots pulsing one after another. Unfortunately I have no video of it.

See these sites for information on plymouth, how to set it up and hiding as much console output during boot as possible:

• https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki/Bootsplash
• http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=17650
• http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=66484&start=15
• http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/14770/how-the-remove-the-raspberry-pi-version-message-after-login
• http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=11642
• http://brej.org/blog/?cat=16
• http://www.khattam.info/plymouth-preview-a-tool-to-preview-your-plymouth-theme-2010-11-19.html
• http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/Scripts/

Attached to this post is a zip file with two versions of the plymouth theme. The ‘retropie’ is the latest.

NOTICE
I can’t give any support as I have cancelled working on this.

[herbfargus]

It’s a real pity there wasn’t much more support for this. We’ve recently integrated video support for splaashcreens but I still feel like plymouth is a much better boot option- I’ve been wanting to try this out- I’ll test it when I’ve got time and if I’m able to get it to work I’ll post my steps to get it to work and also a simple video of it booting-

You’ve done great work nils- I appreciate it.

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