Mov.stop error with MovieStim

[Michael]

Using MovieStim

If you just use the code in the movie demo and use you file name/path does it work then? (I don’t know what this display.fill() thing is and whether it could cause a problem for you) Also, there are 3 different movie stimulus options, each using a different library for loading movies. You’re currently using MovieStim2 but you could try MovieStim and Moviestim3 with no other changes to your code to test them instead.

i.e. try one of the other movie stim backends (2 or 3) to see if this sound issue is improved.

On unrelated performance matters, it might be worth instantiating your three movie stimuli in advance (it can take a while to create each one, leading to delays between each one). Your code to play them seems to be identical, so this could be rolled into a function, which would make your code more concise but more importantly, more maintainable.

e.g.

movies = []
for movie_filename in ['Experiment.mp4', 'Resting_somesound.mp4', 'VPCstim3.m4v']:
    movies.append(MovieStim3(win, movie_filename, size=[1920,1080], flipVert=False))

for movie in movies:
    your_movie_playing_function(movie)