Displaying video/GIF and text simultaneously

boyao

Hello folks!

I tried to display a motion visual illusion in video or GIF format and display a sequence of text on top of it simultaneously. Coroutines doesn't seem to allow it. Any solution in opensesame?

Many thanks for your kind help!

Bo

Daniel_ac

Hello!

I have a similar problem. I am trying to show a video as well as a multiple choice question form simultaneouly, but the coroutines function doesn't allow it. I would love to know if there is any way around it.

Thank you a lot for your help!

Daniel

eduard

Hi guys,

Coroutines are not made for that purpose. YOu want to embed your video. As far as I know, there media player plugins cannot do these types of things. However, I think I remember to have seen attempts of doing similar things on the forum. If you browse the search function you might be luckily. No promises, but I think the way to go is using inline_scripts and the cv2 python package.

Ediard

dsyfaro

Hey peeps!

I have same problem like i'm implementing a experiment in which i want gifs as stimuli.

Tell me if you solve this problem. If possible, please elaborate how you solve the problem by giving scripts.

Thankyou in advance.

Dsyfaro

eduard

Hi Dsyfaro,

As mentioned above, video libraries are the way to go. I recommend opencv (because I know it somewhat), no idea whether others are better or worse. For example, here a link how to create gifs in Python: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2018/11/05/creating-gifs-with-opencv/

(not quite what you want but still useful. Gifs are basically just videos with a very low framerate. So, check out the video playback part of our documentation: https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/manual/stimuli/video/

This should get you started.

If you run into a concrete issue, feel free to post again.

Eduard