Suddenly, my experiments went on strike (the ntdll blues)

Hi Jon - sorry for the delay. I have some more error messages, in case they’re helpful. After the downgrade to 1.83.4, all of my experiments that don’t involve Movie stims are working fine, but all of my experiments with Movie stims are still breaking after a couple of videos are played. In 1.83.4, I get this error (with the movie file breaking never being consistent):

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “…lastrun.py”, line 732, in
depth=-3.0,
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\psychopy-1.83.04-py2.7.egg\psychopy\visual\movie3.py”, line 121, in init
self.loadMovie(self.filename)
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\psychopy-1.83.04-py2.7.egg\psychopy\visual\movie3.py”, line 168, in loadMovie
self._audioStream = sound.Sound(self._mov.audio.to_soundarray(),
File “”, line 2, in to_soundarray
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\moviepy-0.2.2.11-py2.7.egg\moviepy\decorators.py”, line 54, in requires_duration
return f(clip, *a, **k)
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\moviepy-0.2.2.11-py2.7.egg\moviepy\audio\AudioClip.py”, line 114, in to_soundarray
chunksize=buffersize))
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\shape_base.py”, line 230, in vstack
return _nx.concatenate([atleast_2d(_m) for _m in tup], 0)
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\moviepy-0.2.2.11-py2.7.egg\moviepy\audio\AudioClip.py”, line 81, in generator
buffersize=chunksize)
File “”, line 2, in to_soundarray
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\moviepy-0.2.2.11-py2.7.egg\moviepy\decorators.py”, line 54, in requires_duration
return f(clip, *a, **k)
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\moviepy-0.2.2.11-py2.7.egg\moviepy\audio\AudioClip.py”, line 127, in to_soundarray
snd_array = self.get_frame(tt)
File “”, line 2, in get_frame
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\moviepy-0.2.2.11-py2.7.egg\moviepy\decorators.py”, line 89, in wrapper
return f(*new_a, **new_kw)
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\moviepy-0.2.2.11-py2.7.egg\moviepy\Clip.py”, line 95, in get_frame
return self.make_frame(t)
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\moviepy-0.2.2.11-py2.7.egg\moviepy\audio\io\AudioFileClip.py”, line 71, in
self.make_frame = lambda t: reader.get_frame(t)
File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\moviepy-0.2.2.11-py2.7.egg\moviepy\audio\io\readers.py”, line 196, in get_frame
"but len(buffer)=%d\n"%(len(self.buffer))+ str(error))
IOError: Error in file Stimuli/Videos/fe141_200.mov, At time t=11.34-12.47 seconds, indices wanted: 100000-149999, but len(buffer)=110980
index 110980 is out of bounds for axis 0 with size 110980
Exception TypeError: “‘NoneType’ object is not callable” in <bound method Server.del of <pyolib.server.Server object at 0x04F1F330>> ignored
AsioDrv::: CAsioDrv()…
AsioDrv::: InitWdmDrv()…

Oddly, this error now pops up for my final dissertation experiment, which was working fine through mid-February.

I think as a next step I can check to see how broadly distributed these problems are on campus. Although the computers I have access to are pretty heterogeneous, I could get more data on whether they’re afflicting others, too, so that it’s some sort of strange campus-wide thing.