steamdeck_startup_animations

Currently working version

library.css and library.js is working for SteamOS 3.3.1 (build 20220817.1) and Steam Version 1663888700 (STABLE Branch)

 

This was forked from https://github.com/kageurufu/steamdeck_startup_animations and added library.css and library.js file modifications following this guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LP3sLpi6N3NMSbqquLlY8a0ZNpFT-WRyRLiU_tm6N-k/edit from reddit user /u/Crazy89_ which you can find saved here

The modifications allow for:

• Full screen animations
• Changes how they fade out to make the boot transition smoother
• Removes the 10 second webm animation limit
• Removes the haptics on boot

A collection of steamdeck startup animations, plus a script to randomize your startup on each boot

You can add/remove webms as long as theyre exactly 1840847 bytes to the /home/deck/homebrew/startup_animations/deck_startup directory. The service uses the find command to randomly select one from that folder.

The script dynamically polls the original files for the file size and uses regex to find/replace the values needed in the file after making backups. You are using this at your own risk and you should try and understand what it does. I will do my best however to make sure it works.

Two systemd services are installed. One runs on device start which rotates the animation with each startup. A second service runs every time you switch to desktop mode so when you log off from desktop mode you get a new animation into game mode. If you know what you're doing you can install one or both services.

So far, I've made boot animations from the following consoles:

• dreamcast
• ps1
• ps2
• ps4
• switch
• gamecube
• ps2
• switchfirst (first boot animation)
• switch (regular boot animation)
• xbox
• xbox 360
• xbox one

Installation

curl -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hummelm10/steamdeck_startup_animations/main/install.sh | bash -

If you're (justifiably) not a fan of curl | bash, you can run this:

mkdir -p "$HOME/homebrew"
mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/systemd/user"
git clone https://github.com/hummelm10/steamdeck_startup_animations "$HOME/homebrew/startup_animations"
ln -sf "$HOME/homebrew/startup_animations/randomize_deck_startup.service" "$HOME/.config/systemd/user/randomize_deck_startup.service"
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now randomize_deck_startup.service
ln -sf "$HOME/homebrew/startup_animations/randomize_deck_desktop.service" "$HOME/.config/systemd/user/randomize_deck_desktop.service"
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now randomize_deck_desktop.service

If you want to risk the feature/dev branch you can do so with:

curl -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hummelm10/steamdeck_startup_animations/main/install_dev.sh | bash -

(There's a chance the feature/dev branch will soft brick your device since I'm still working on it. Don't do unless you know what you're doing. However, there is a chance at recovery if you boot from a USB and manually restore the css and js files and remove the startup script.)

Updating

To update run the following. This will preserve whatever is in /home/deck/homebrew/startup_animations/deck_startup and will not overwrite any files.

bash $HOME/homebrew/startup_animations/update.sh

Uninstallation

bash $HOME/homebrew/startup_animations/uninstall.sh

Issue Reporting

Please include the journalctl logs using the output from journalctl -e SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=bootWebmRandomizer in Konsole in your bug report along with a description of the behavior your are seeing for startup animation issues.

Please include the journalctl logs using the output from journalctl -e SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=bootWebmRandomizerDesktop in Konsole in your bug report along with a description of the behavior your are seeing for return to game mode animation issues.

Please also submit the OS version and build and Steam version and the hashes for the modified files. You can find the hashes with the following command:

md5sum /home/deck/.steam/steamui/css/library.css
md5sum /home/deck/.steam/steamui/css/library.css.backup
md5sum /home/deck/.steam/steamui/library.js
md5sum /home/deck/.steam/steamui/library.js.backup

Recovery Steps

If you do run into an issue where you cannot boot please follow the steps here

Making an animation (somewhat advanced)

I used youtube-dl to grab the best video and audio tracks from youtube, and then ffmpeg to merge them, resizing down to fit the Deck's 1280x800 screen. Then I use truncate to make the file the right size.

This all does work on the steamdeck

Getting the dependencies

python3 -m ensurepip
~/.local/bin/pip install --user youtube-dl

Creating the animation

# Get ps1.webm and ps1.m4a. Your file extensions may differ here
~/.local/bin/youtube-dl -f bestvideo -o 'ps1.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JwbfIi5Uio
~/.local/bin/youtube-dl -f bestaudio -o 'ps1.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JwbfIi5Uio

# Convert the video from whatever input formats to a webm video in VP9 encoding, with vorbis encoded audio
ffmpeg -i ps1.webm -i ps1.m4a \
       -map 0:v:0  -map 1:a:0 \
       -filter:v "scale='min(1280,iw)':min'(800,ih)':force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:800:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2" \
       -c:v vp9 \
       -c:a libvorbis \
       my_deck_startup_ps1.webm

# Make sure the generated file is less than 1840847B here
# Mine was `389670`, plenty small enough
stat -c '%s' my_deck_startup_ps1.webm

truncate -s 1840847 my_deck_startup_ps1.webm

The ffmpeg command is a bit confusing, so heres a breakdown

• -i ps1.webm -i ps1.m4a
  Load both the video and audio files we downloaded.
• -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0
  Only use the first video stream from the first file, and first audio stream from the second.
  This prevents having multiple video or audio streams in the final file
• -filter:v "scale='min(1280,iw)':min'(800,ih)':force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:800:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2"
  This is most confusing part, basically we're resizing the video to fit 1280x800
  min'(1280,iw)':min'(800,ih)' ensures the target size is never upscaled
  force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease scales to fit within a given size, keeping the original aspect ratio
  pad=1280:800:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2 pad the video size to 1280:800, centering the original video. This is optional and I might not use it in the future
• -c:v vp9 c:a libvorbis Select our output VP9 / vorbis codecs