presenting a movie

Tue Oct 18 15:39:12 UTC 2011

If you're looking to transcode videos, you might try Handbrake:

http://handbrake.fr/

which may give you a result you like. And it's free.

-n

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Meltem BALLAN <meltemballan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
> That you very much for reminding. I know what I am responsible of especially
> when I teach the science ethics. You might be interested that OJOsoft trial
> version allows you to convert 20% of your entire data.
> Meltem
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:58 PM, David McFarlane <mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Just to clarify, none of the products from ojosoft are free.  They are
>> distributed as "shareware", which means that you may download and try them
>> for free, and you might indeed get away with continuing to use them for
>> free, but if you find them useful then you are supposed to pay for them,
>> else how can companies like this continue to make these products available?
>>  So if ojosoft provided something of value to your research, then do the
>> right thing and buy the product to keep your karma intact and help keep the
>> company in business providing useful products for the next time you need
>> one.
>>
>> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>>
>>
>> At 10/17/2011 04:44 PM Monday, you wrote:
>>
>>> David,
>>> I used the free version. But I think it has the similar specs. The other
>>> product I can recommend is vlc and vlmc for mac. It is still beta and
>>> success rate for my experiments is 50/50.
>>> Best
>>> Meltem
>>> On Oct 17, 2011 4:40 PM, "David McFarlane"
>>> <<mailto:mcfarla9 at msu.edu>mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:
>>> Meltem,
>>>
>>> Thanks for reporting back on your success, and indicating which product
>>> worked for you.  I suppose you used the "Total Video Converter" product from
>>> ojosoft (<http://www.ojosoft.com>www.ojosoft.com, US$27).  I will add that
>>> to my growing E-Prime FAQ.  I wonder how the ojosoft products compare to the
>>> AoA products (<http://www.aoamedia.com>www.aoamedia.com )?
>>>
>>> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>>>
>>>
>>> At 10/17/2011 04:27 PM Monday, you wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> I successfully showed a video on E-Prime for 10 min (I am not sure about
>>> the delays between netstation and E-PRIME yet) I used OJOSoft to convert
>>> original video format (which was VOB in my case) to MPEG-1. I rendered my
>>> video within E-Prime codeg config (btw I use K-lite codec). I did not
>>> receive any error but some warnings. After the third rendering I got no
>>> warning and of course no error. Now I am able to show a series of videos for
>>> over 10  min !!
>>> Thank you David Vinson for information and other forum members for
>>> earlier discussions.
>>> Meltem
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Meltem BALLAN
>>> <<mailto:meltemballan at gmail.com><mailto:meltemballan at gmail.com>meltemballan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>> Thank you very much pointing out the special thread. It is not easy to
>>> follow up all the threads but I am trying.
>>> I tried to render my files. Before everything I checked the MSconfig as
>>> defined on
>>> <<http://www.pstnet.com/support/kb.asp?TopicID=2621>http://www.pstnet.com/support/kb.asp?TopicID=2621>INFO:
>>> How to use MSCONFIG to troubleshoot machine configuration and reduce
>>> background applications. Then I followed the instructions on
>>> <<http://www.pstnet.com/support/kb.asp?TopicID=3162>http://www.pstnet.com/support/kb.asp?TopicID=3162>FEATURE:
>>> CodecConfig provides ability to choose codecs used for Movie and Sound
>>> rendering. I use k-lite as it works pretty good for my auditory task. But,
>>> it seems like I cannot correctly render those files (Failed files). I tried
>>> MPEG-1, MPEG-2, avi and as a last format ts. I could not succeed. It is
>>> little bit frustrating and I know there are people solved the issue w/ video
>>> decoding and presenting.
>>> I do not know how to ask the question anymore. But is there a way to show
>>> at least a piece between 300 and 800 ms.
>>> Thanks
>>> MEltem
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:23 AM, David Vinson
>>> <<mailto:d.vinson at ucl.ac.uk><mailto:d.vinson at ucl.ac.uk>d.vinson at ucl.ac.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi Meltem,
>>>
>>> Sorry to say that I'm afraid your best course of action is to try
>>> different video formats.
>>> If you run the Codec Config tool on your problematic video this may help
>>> to identify what the problem is.
>>>
>>> You might also find some useful information in this thread from July:
>>>
>>> <<http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/0338b7e9ceec5d22>http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/0338b7e9ceec5d22>http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/0338b7e9ceec5d22
>>>
>>> good luck,
>>> david
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17/10/2011 15:53, Meltem BALLAN wrote:
>>> David,
>>> Thank you very much for the hint. Unfortunately, it has not been working.
>>> I am using mpg format which is the format suggested by PST. I can only load
>>> the demo videos but nothing else. I developing a series of experiment for
>>> infants and need some attention grabber objects (fixation-like). It does not
>>> need to be a fancy video or something just moving shapes or so between 300
>>> and 800 ms.
>>> The other experiment is an open eye state (some call it resting but not
>>> sure). I am showing a series of videos for 10 min and recording EEG. I
>>> cannot get any of my experiments going in E-PRIME w/ video. The error
>>> message is a RUNTIME ERROR. An error occurs while attempting to load the
>>> movie. Marker: 242 Error: 0 (0x0)
>>> Line:202 Error number:11053.
>>> There must be a way to solve it. I contacted PST once and no solution
>>> offered. I will try to bug them again.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Meltem
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:45 AM, David Vinson
>>> <<mailto:d.vinson at ucl.ac.uk><mailto:d.vinson at ucl.ac.uk>d.vinson at ucl.ac.uk
>>> <mailto:d.vinson at ucl.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>  Presenting movies successfully can be a huge challenge in E-Prime,
>>>  mainly related to compatibility issues.
>>>
>>>  The very first step is to create the simplest possible experiment
>>>  which displays only your movie and nothing else.  If this does not
>>>  work you may need to convert the movie into some other format.
>>>
>>>  hope this helps,
>>>  david
>>>
>>>
>>>  On 14/10/2011 20:21, Meltem BALLAN wrote:
>>>
>>>      Hello Again,
>>>      I have been trying to present a movie  which is 9 min 40 sec
>>>      and I am receiving an error which is :
>>>      Run-time Error (Line 838) 11053: An error occurred while
>>>      attempting to load the movie
>>>      Marker: 227
>>>      Error: -<tel:<tel:2147220891>2147220891><tel:2147220891>2147220891
>>> <tel:<tel:<tel:2147220891>2147220891><tel:2147220891>2147220891>
>>> (0x80040265)
>>>
>>>      I am doing exactly what I was told on the documentations. I
>>>      email PST couple of times and no solution yet. Any idea? Has
>>>      anyone solved this issue yet ?
>>>      Thank you again.
>>>      Meltem
>>>
>>>      --         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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> University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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