[Boot Video] really short one - Vanishing
 

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1965/n900boot2.jpg
So.. Many of you said that the first one was too long and that was right. The second one was shorter but maybe not short enough? :) I really appreciate your support guys (and girls) and i wanted to thank you by making a third video, but this one more stunning and really short.

Sorry for another thread but i think this way is simpler.

See the video here.

You can download AVI from here.

Hope you like it. :rolleyes:

Link to the first and second video.
Link to the post how to put it as your boot video (just change the name in conf file)

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nice dude. you have a bit of talent about you. could i maybe twist your arm into making a maemo boot vid? i really like the color scheme you used. good eye candy. keep up the good work, and thank you.

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what are you making the videos with? Shake?

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Oh now that I like. Helloooo new boot video.

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looking great!!!

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excellent job! keep em coming!

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It would be nice to have a way to disable boot sound when you have to reboot in a meeting room!

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I may have discovered how to do this by mistake...earlier today I had my profile set to silent, and then rebooted to try out one of these videos. I didn't get any sound out of the boot video. Not sure if this works for everyone, but try it to see. Put N900 in silent profile mode before reboot to see if it works.

BTW, another freaking awesome boot video. Soooo many great ones to pick from!!

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Switch to Silent profile before booting for that.

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Good stuff THanks!

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Ever better than the other one(s)...! :)

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http://uploads.kexx.net/n900 extremely short.avi

Direct link, you may playe this in the opening post :)

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awsome one! to bad i disabled my bootlogo completly .. nothing is faster ;)

but i would definatly use yours!

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dude awesome! 5 stars! :P

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Nice work, keep them coming!

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as for me - I prefered the 2nd one, which was a 10 sec. version of the very first version. Unfortunatly I am no longer able to download it - I am always receiving this latest very short version instead (which is btw also very nice) Any chance to get a link again to the 2nd version??

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gingelma, 4shared isn't working for me right now but i'll check the links later. I can send it on your e-mail if you don't want to wait.

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@kopte - an email would be nice, if it doesn't matter to you . . .

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Send me a PM with your e-mail.

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send a PM - thanks a lot

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Do you need a specific default.conf for this .avi file? I used the one linked in the "how to" post, but I was not able to enter the last line of code (ln -s /opt/n900_extremely_short.avi), without getting this error in xTerm: "1n: not found." I boot up now with no welcome at all, which is better than the Nokia Hands, but what am I doing wrong?

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Does what it says on the tin. Short sharp and to the point. awesome.

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you typed "1n" not "ln" ;)

and of course you have to take the default.conf in which the filename is "n900_extremely_short.avi" or you just rename the .avi to maemo.avi and use the first default.conf from the how to ^^

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Not 1(one)n. Is it I(eye)n or l(el)n?

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As stated above it's LN (lowercase)... ;)

ln creates links... ;)

-s means symbolic...

So the command ln -s target link creates a link from (target/original) to (link).. :)

Read more here or here... ;)

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Got it. It worked! And thanks for the read links. :)

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Thanks to Op for the video. I've ran the instructions in the other thread and the video now loads up on booting, but Im getting what feels like odd behaviour. I wanted to run it past everyone to make sure it's ok.

When i start up the phone now I get the white "Nokia" screen, then the flashing white loading dots. The dots disappear and it goes all black for a few seconds. Then I get the flashing loading dots again, then the new boot video from this thread. I don't remember this stutter before. It also seems slower to put the widgets on the screen now after booting up. Im not sure if this is all in my head, anyone else notice similar behaviour?

I followed these instructions, I changed the name of the avi file to match.

sudo gainroot
mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/default.conf /etc/hildon-welcome.d/
mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/maemo.avi /opt/
cd /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/
ln -s /opt/maemo.avi maemo.avi

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I did notice this after the first reboot. After the second and third, it seemed right to me.

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Thanks sorodoros. I have rebooted now about 5 times, and it is the same. It's taking around 20 seconds from when the wallpaper and battery indicator section appear until the widgets start popping onto the screen. They popped up pretty much instantly before as I dont have much on the screen yet, a few contacts and the weather app. Hopefully it will settle down.

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Have you installed any new themes?

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Nope, no themes - everything like that is still default the way it came. On the desktop Ive only added two contact shortcuts and the maemo weather app, plus there is still whatever was on it when it came (phone shortcut, email shortcut, ovi stuff).

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yoooo...really f%$^&ing nice....what program do you use to make them????

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Brilliant, you're a dab hand at making those! Thanks for your effort and for sharing :D

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Could You post the output of:

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Sure, thanks for your help

ls -l /etc/hildon-welcome.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 39 Feb 4 00:25 default.conf

cat /etc/hildon-welcome.d/default.conf
[hildon-welcome]
filename=maemo.avi

ls -l /opt/maemo.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 1106922 Feb 4 00:21 /opt/maemo.avi

ls -l /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1457954 Feb 26 2009 Hands-v32-h264.avi
1rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 4 00:31 maemo.avi -> /opt/maemo.avi

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kojacker:
That's weird... I don't see anything wrong... :/

Just as a test; Could You try to copy the /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media instead of linking?

Maybe /opt isn't mounted when it's trying to show the video...?

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Thanks DrWilken, I tired that and restarted but it's the same. However Im glad you couldnt see anything wrong in the previous post, it might be something else I need to look into not related to the new boot video.

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Your welcome :)

Does the video play in Media Player if You try it manually? :)

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I noticed that the default.conf file is owned by user:root (user/group) and it's owned by root:root on my N900... ;)

Maybe it checks the ownership of the file when booting (run the commands as root - i.e. run gainroot before running the commands)...

Try this:
If that works You can try to move the file to /opt again and create the link once more... ;)

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You have good eyes! Still no luck though :) Im going to take a look for updates, clear out sms messages, etc to see what happens. It's possible I only noticed it after rebooting to watch the new video but I guess the problem may be related to something else and I just hadn't spotted it. Thanks again for helping out :)