How can I use VLC media player on Opensesami V.3.1?

yoshimine

How can I use VLC media player on Opensesami V.3.1 (windows version)?
When I opened the opensesami file with VLC player created by previous version
VLC players disappeared from the panel.
Is VLC media player not available with V3.1?

sebastiaan

Hi,

The media_player_vlc plugin is no longer included by default, because we felt that it was just not working well enough. The new media_player_mpy should be better, so I recommend using that, and reporting any problems here (it is, after all, a new plugin).

See also:

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.1/manual/stimuli/video/

If you nevertheless want to install media_player_vlc plugin, you can do so by running the following commands in the debug window:

import pip
pip.main(['install', 'opensesame-plugin-media_player_vlc'])

Hope this helps!

Sebastiaan

DCube

Hello Sebastian,

OpenSesame's media_player_mpy loads my video sequences with problems. These are the problems:

1) The voice is frequently interrupted during the video play.

2) Voice is always interrupted in the end (wasting important messages in the end).

3) Images freeze from time to time while the voice continues with such stated interruptions.

I am using Windows XP, the latest OpenSesame version, and just copy/pasted the command that you wrote above to the debug window and the problems still persist. My videos (N=23) range from 7 - 30 seconds and 30-100MB's.

My videos are so large and frequent that the media_player_mpy loop folder could not contain them without causing OpenSesame to be unresponsive for dozens of minutes. They have been placed in the experimental folder as suggested in the media_player_mpy folder.

So, how can OpenSesame play my videos without the interruptions?

Thank You
DCube