Intro for MP (3 Viewers)

[MrMario64]

I think the whole idea for a video on bootup is clucky.
We try to boot fast by caching fonts etc etc and then we r gonna slow it down by adding a movie.

I cannot see why people would want that.

 

[Anonymous]

I think the whole idea for a video on bootup is clucky.
We try to boot fast by caching fonts etc etc and then we r gonna slow it down by adding a movie.

I cannot see why people would want that.

Gotcha, how about just 9 minutes then?

 

[Anonymous]

I have to agree with MrMario64. MP is already quite slow to start (30+ seconds on my midrange pc) and this will make it slower - especially if people want to have windows boot to MP as the shell somehow.

 

[Anonymous]

I have to agree with MrMario64. MP is already quite slow to start (30+ seconds on my midrange pc) and this will make it slower - especially if people want to have windows boot to MP as the shell somehow.

I also agree, I do not want an intro

 

[MrMario64]

I have to agree with MrMario64. MP is already quite slow to start (30+ seconds on my midrange pc) and this will make it slower - especially if people want to have windows boot to MP as the shell somehow.

30 secs????

damn thats long......
Could you post your mediaportal.log?
I would like to know what takes so long

 

[Anonymous]

Post the contents in a reply? Or post it as an attachment somehow?

 

[waeberd]

Intro movie slows down the startup and should be avoided IMHO.

But how about replacing the splash screen with one in samsonite's sexy "blue banner" style??

just by two cents!

 

[Anonymous]

or how about a simple animated gif that can be chosen and activated in the F2 screen.

i think to replace the startup image by a gif shouldn't make the startup any slower

 

[SiLenTYL]

i quite like XBMC's python script which plays an MP3 on startup

anything else is just dumb

 

[Anonymous]

i think to replace the startup image by a gif shouldn't make the startup any slower

I submitted a patch a while ago to load the splash image from a gif (the mplogo.gif file) and optionally make the splash screen full screen, it's never been included but then it's not exactly high priority.

What might be nice would be to have a section of the splash screen to show supported formats and standards (Dolby Digital, Monkeys Audio, MAME, etc) , fading each one in and out. Shouldn't take too much processing power to do that.