LinuxQuestions.org - Mplayer as bootsplash?

Saw this earlier, a bootsplash using video on the framebuffer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSyejmdZEh8

I tried something similar just now using mplayer, which i recorded and put to youtube, but it has a few issues as i only spent half hour or so fiddling with this. In the video i recorded below, you can see that mplayer is fighting with the boot messages -- how could i stop this happening?

Here's the video of my attempt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tdn77cy92g

And also, is it possible ot get this to start earlier in the boot process? But i would imagine it would involve putting mplayer (and libs), along with the scripts and the video file within the initrd image? That might not be possible...

Basically, i cobbled this together on slackware:

start.sh - Run this from beginning of /etc/rc.d/rc.S

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# path to any video file here

SPLASH=/root/videosplash/splash.mp4



mkfifo /root/videosplash/fifopipe



# supress mplayer output, use the framebuffer video output and loop video infinitely

/usr/bin/mplayer \

        -slave \

        -really-quiet \

        -vo fbdev \

        -loop 0 \

        -input file=/root/videosplash/fifopipe ${SPLASH} < /dev/null > /dev/null &

stop.sh - Run this from the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# this quits mplayer using a pipe command

# if placed at the end of rc.local, the video will quit at the end of the booting process

if [ ! -z $(pidof mplayer) ]; then

        echo -e "q\n" > /root/videosplash/fifopipe

        sleep 1

fi