General discussion • How to Play a Fullscreen Splash Video on Raspberry Pi OS Lite?

I'm using Raspberry Pi OS Lite (32-bit). At boot, I want to play a full-screen video (e.g. splash.mp4) without showing any terminal output, boot logs, or blinking cursor. I don't want to use Plymouth because it's not stable on my setup.

My question is:
How can I play a full-screen video directly on the framebuffer (without X server) right after Raspberry Pi boots?
Which video player and systemd configuration should I use?

Thanks in advance.

Statistics: Posted by remzirecep — Wed Jun 18, 2025 9:06 am

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