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we need a intro video from the matrix

Nice idea, I'll try to make one in Flash, although I might fail.

I have no media fu, but here's how i see the phone startup video:
Some liberal editing and redubbing of the Rage music video

Scene: Closeup of a monochrome computer monitor.
MONITOR: Call trans opt: received
NEO: I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of change.
MONITOR: Warning: Carrier anomaly
NEO: I came here to tell you how it's going to begin.
NEO: I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see.
MONITOR: Trace program: running
NEO: I'm going to show them a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible.
MONITOR: System failure
NEO: Where we go from there...
(Zoom to black.)
NEO: is a choice I leave to you.
(Continue zoom with judicious edit of Nokia N900 promo video

Result: about 30-40 s of awesome.

Yeah, I made a similar/simpler one with Adobe Flash. If someone that is more skilled with animation wanna do a better intro be my guest.

Preview file of the Matrix intro I made can be viewed here.



//== Boot Video Installation ==\\

PREVIEW OF INTRO MOVIE: MATRIX.AVI

1) Download default.conf (I edited it so you save time)
2) Connect to your N900 via SSH(search if you don't know how to do that)
3) Once connected, paste the default.conf you downloaded from step 1 to /etc/hildon-welcome.d/ and overwrite the current one
4) To install the intro movie you need to transfer the video file to /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/
5) Reboot your device and enjoy

\\== Boot Video Installation ==//

Which pill?

Blue pill

I managed to add the opening video using Terminal rather than SSH.
I copied the relevant files to an easily accessible location and then used the mv command.

(Please only do this at your own risk, I will not be to blame for any bricked devices!)

eg.

to backup the original file,
cp /etc/hildon-welcome.d/*.conf /home/user/MyDocs/

then to put in the video file (any way to optify this?)
mv /home/user/MyDocs/Matrix/media/*.avi /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/

and to copy over the file that tells the phone which movie to play:
mv /home/user/MyDocs/Matrix/conf/*.conf /etc/hildon-welcome.d/

Nice work on the video.

Nice idea, will also add this installation method on first post.
Did you like the matrix boot video?

It seems that there is a glitch(green line appearing on the bottom) although that doesn't appear
when playing the video locally, only happens when the device boots.

Edit: If anyone has any idea about optifying the video let me know.

You can optify it by putting it in /opt/ and making a symlink. It's pretty straightforward.

copy movie file to /opt/

cd /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/
ln -s /opt/(name of video file) (name of video file)

ls -l
check to make sure you see the link in the listing

example
ln -s /opt/matrix.avi matrix.avi

Be careful not to delete the movie file in opt. I don't know what happens if it fails to find a boot video... hopefully nothing at all, but i don't want to test.

Yeah I liked it. As I don't really like to reboot often, I can't remember the green line now, but it looked great
MAemoTRIX indeed, though I'm sure many will prefer just MATRIX.

I'm not sure if it's possible to optify this but it would be nice, or we could end up with lots of boot videos for different themes if people start making them. There is also the shutdown video that goes to "NOKIA" but I'm ok with it as it is.

I probably should have put mv instead of cp for the original default.conf but it's easy to make a new one with notepad on a PC and just edit the one you made to use the name of the original file.

Edit: Thanks to Flandry for showing me how to make a simlink to the video. I'll try it after dinner

What would be great is if there was a package that could do all this via the App Installer for everyone, once it's gone through testing. It seems fine for me so far. All themes I've tried (including from Ovi Store) seem to mess up the Ovi widget on the desktop.

Video is great! But i think it can be a little bit better by tightening the delays to shorten it a bit to a length somewhere between 3 and 5 secs.

(also can the falling lines be desynced a little ? :P)

Great work! cheers! :-D