[open] Problem playing videos on mac
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!
Comments
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.
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.