[vdr] Splash on FF card?

[Johannes Stezenbach]

C.Y.M wrote:
> Harald Milz wrote:
> > A splashscreen on the FF card during boot (well, as early as possible)
> > would be nice... just so that the screen doesn't stay dark. How could that
> > be done? 
> > 
> 
> Once you load the modules, you can call mplayer to display a splash video, then
> start vdr right after that.
> 
> Here is a snippet of my init.d script for vdr:
> 
> case "$1" in
>   start)
>          if ! ps -C vdr > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>          cd /usr/local/bin
>          ./insdvb.sh load
>          echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
>          /usr/bin/mplayer -vo mpegpes /etc/vdr/VDRboot.mpeg 2>/dev/null
> 1>/dev/null &
>          sleep 7
>          killall -q -TERM mplayer
>          ./$DAEMON -v $VIDEO_DIR -E $EPG_DIR -c $CFG_DIR $OPTIONS \

test_stillimage from dvb-apps could also be used.

Johannes