problems with file path

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• eduard

  March 2017

  Hi Hanne,

  Did you try adding your files to the filepool and see what the performance is? It is true that a big pool can cause trouble, but this doesn't have to affect you much. If the performance issues are too severe, we can try to fix it.

  Eduard

  
• Spanne

  March 2017

  Hi Eduard,
  Thanks for responding. It does effect the performance of my experiment. It are two movies of approx. 123MB played six times. Since I measure physiological responses to my stimuli the timing is kind of important.
  Hanne
• eduard

  March 2017

  Alright. Well, what you need eventually is a full path to the video file of yours, that you can put into the plugin with which you're going to play back the video. So, maybe coding it in a permanent way, would suit you? Before every time you load/play the video, you can put this in an inline_script:

  if videofile == 'fish1':
       path = "\full\path\to\your\file"
  elif videofile == 'fish2':
      # load another file
  

  Afterwards, use the variable path to load the video in the plugin. I haven't tested this and I don't work myself with videos, so whether it will work or not, I don't really know

  Eduard

  
• Spanne

  March 2017

  Thank you Eduard!
  I changed the location of the experiment folder to my C:/ directory and used the path command.
  Now it is working
• Daniel

  March 2017

  Hi Spanne,
  you can also place files in folders relative to your OpenSesame experiment, if I'm correct (See this function in the documentation). So if you place your videos in a subfolder videos in the folder at which your experiment is located, you should be able to get the path to a file called fish.mp4 with pool['videos/fish.mp4' ] for instance. This should also work if you place such a reference in the media_player_mpy item (thus simply videos/fish.mp4 in the file box).