[open] Problem playing videos on mac

fairchild91

Hi All,

I'm trying to program a simple experiment that will play a series of 6-second videos and collect a keypress for each one. However, I am having trouble with the built-in video player. The first frame of the video appears, but the video does not actually play nor does the experiment progress beyond that.

This is happening with the following specifications:

• Version .27 'Frisky Freud'
• 2012 MacBook Air, running OS X Yosemite
• .avi videos
• Legacy back-end

Any ideas on why this is happening would be very much appreciated! Thank you!

Edwin

I think this might be a case for @dschreij, who is our Mac and video expert.

Also, you might want to specify which of the video playback options you are using, to make it easier to troubleshoot the issue.

Daniel

I don't think the vlc player works at all on the mac, and the videoplayer that is included is based on opencv, which is also a bit dodgy.You can try using the GStreamer video player instead: https://github.com/dschreij/media_player_gst
This requires you to install the gstreamer framework separately (www.gstreamer.com) and put the plugin as you can download it from Github above in your OpenSesame plugins folder.