Custom Splash Screen

[wkl3968]

I have created a specific 8s animated splash screen in mp4 format. I would like it to be the bootup screen as soon as possible. Is this possible for hudiy?

[hudiy]

Hudiy starts after the graphical compositor (Wayland/Labwc) is loaded so it's not possible to display anything from Hudiy during the kernel boot and system startup. Depending on how complex your animation is, you could try converting it to the Plymouth theme.

It might be possible to play an mp4 file using GStreamer with kmssink, but you'd need to check whether it won't block Wayland/Labwc. Hardware video acceleration may also not be available at that stage of the system startup.

This kind of functionality is highly specific to the SoC, OS and graphics stack. You could try asking on the official Raspberry Pi forum to find out whether this is even possible.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/docum ... index.html
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/

[wkl3968]

I tried to develop the Plymouth splash screen together with Chatgpt but fail to make it work without impacing boot time and interference with hudiy splash. I'm not sure how OpenAutoPro implemented it with two splash animations. I hope hudiy can provide animation capabilities either play video files or displaying multiple image frames to mimic the animation. Or should it be an independent systemd that play the splash screen while pi and hudiy boot in the background. Plymouth capabilities seems limited.

[proteinklumpen]

Hey,

I do get a short white flickering after the hudiy splash screen, before it turns on the UI of hudiy. Changing the delay of the splash screen doesn't impact this behaviour. Its always a completely white screen for like half a second bevore hudiy UI turns on. Is there anything I can do about that?