[solved] Pausing video

aem · March 2015

Hello. I'm new to OpenSesame and have little experience coding.

I am using the media_player_vlc plugin to show a video. I would like to allow the participant to pause the video with a keypress (specifically, pressing the spacebar), then un-pause the video on the next keypress. I would like to allow them to pause and un-pause the video as many times as they would like. Though I have seen some posts about pausing sounds (using the sampler and synth items), I'm wondering if it is possible to do this with the media_player_vlc plugin as well?

Thanks!

sebastiaan · March 2015

Hi,

What you could do is set the 'Call custom code option' to 'on keypress', and add the following code code:

print('pause!')
self.player.pause()
# Wait for keypress or mouseclick
while pygame.event.wait().type not in (pygame.KEYDOWN, pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN):
    pass
print('resume!')
self.player.pause()

This code will be executed every time that you press a key or click the mouse. It will then pause the player, wait for another key press or mouse click, and then resume the player.

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