Movie format (codec) problems in E-prime 2& A QUESTION REGARDING TO PAUSE

[David McFarlane]

OP,

You are off to a good start by paying attention to codecs and 
container formats.  If you have not already, you might also check the 
thread at 
http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/d18aafdc51d79ba9 
, which in turn has links to other resources.

You did not say whether you run this under Windows XP, Vista, or 
7.  AFAIK, PST has still not gotten movies & sound to work reliably 
under Windows Vista/7, so if you use those, then it is no wonder that 
EP gives you these errors with movies.

-- David McFarlane


At 11/14/2011 10:40 AM Monday, Meltem BALLAN wrote:
>Hi Eric,
>I had the similar issues with VLC. There is an earlier conversation 
>on videos. I finally decided to buy OJOsoft. I use VLC to organize 
>my clips and use OJOsoft to convert (sometimes from mpeg to mpeg). I 
>think they use a different version of ffdshow. I am not sure what it 
>is but I am able to run a video for 3:40 min now. Unfortunately I 
>cannot tell that I solved the problem 100%. It still crashes but 
>rarely. When I discussed this problem with PST they suggest me to 
>use SUPER. It did not work for me :( You might want to give it a shot.
>My current problem is caused by pausing. I pause my experiment when 
>the infants start moving and getting fussy. When I start running the 
>experiment E-Prime crashes in the case I have short video. On the 
>other hand, it runs without any issue in the case I do not use short 
>videos (I use ctrl+shift). Does anyone have any idea?
>Thanks
>Meltem
>
>On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Eric 
><<mailto:elied0327 at gmail.com>elied0327 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hey all,
>I'm working on a task that requires mood induction video clips to be
>played. I have ffdshow installed on the current computer and have used
>vlc media player to create the clips to play. They all are in
>compatible formats with E-Prime 2 (codecs and containers),. but I
>still get -999 timeout errors, sometimes for the whole file, and other
>times for just the audio. E-Prime is very inconsistent in this, as one
>of the video file (The Champ) will play, but another (Denali) will
>not, even though they have the same container file type (.avi) and
>codecs for both audio and video. Has anyone else run into this
>problem? Thanks for your help!
>
>
>--
>Meltem Ballan, PhD
>Department of Psychiatry, CB# 7160
>University of North Carolina School of Medicine
>7023 Neurosciences Hospital
>Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7160

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