video plug-in in next version?

mark

Hi,
I'm having a lot of trouble getting the media plug-in to work when running from source (I've tried on a couple of computers, but it doesn't seem to be working). Is there any chance that the media plug-in will be one of the built ins in the next version of OpenSesame (is that even possible)?
Thanks!
Mark

sebastiaan

Hi Mark,

Yeah, it would be much better if the media_player was included in all distributions (right now it's only included in the Windows binary). The problem is that it contains some non-standard dependencies, but we should be able to package it anyway. I know Daniel is planning to make changes to the underlying mechanism for video playback, so that may improve things as well. All I can say right now is that the media_player is under active development.

Btw, I haven't forgotten your previous post. Daniel is away on a holiday, so I may take a look at it myself this weekend, because it's not good that the page is outdated.

And finally, I have a question for you! You're using OpenSesame on a Mac, right? Here on this forum, someone has a problem with flushing key presses on the Mac. Is this a known issue to you? The thread is here.

Regards,
Sebastiaan

mark

Hi Sebastiaan,
Thanks! I'm actually using OpenSesame on a Windows machine (since the eye-tracker is dependent on Windows), but I have it installed on a Mac and just tried to replicate the issue - I'm not sure I understand Frank's problem, but if I follow it correctly he's having a problem with a keypress occurring in one sketchpad event being treated as if it also happened in a following sketchpad event (so the key was not 'flushed' between the two events). Is that right? If so, then, yes I think this is a Mac issue. I dummied up a little experiment to see if the same thing would happen for me, and yes, it seems to. If I have:
1) Fixation sketchpad (duration = 1000)
2) Target sketchpad (duration = 0)
3) Keyboard response

If I press a key when the target sketchpad is displayed, everything is as it should be, but if I press a key when the fixation sketchpad is displayed, then the target sketchpad never shows up.

I don't know if that helps.
Thanks,
Mark

mark

Hi,
I should also make it clear what the problem with the media player is - it was with Windows, not Mac (I haven't tried to install the plug-in on a Mac yet). It works fine with the 'prepackaged' OpenSesame on Windows, but when I try to run from source, that's when it fails to load a dll (but doesn't specify which one).
Thanks again for such a cool piece of software, it's a real pleasure to play around with.
Thanks!
Mark