Video stimuli playing too fast

Essentially, I am having issues with my video stimuli playing in an experiment. The video stimuli is approx. 32 seconds long, but when I run the experiment, it speeds up the video at 5x the speed, causing it to last only a few seconds. During the same routine, I have a separate audio component that works fine, as well as a fixation cross. Nothing I seem to do can stop the video from playing at an advanced speed and I am stuck.

OS (e.g. Win10): Win10 Pro 19045.4529
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): v2024.15
Standard Standalone? (y/n) If not then what?: Yes

What are you trying to achieve?:
I am trying to play video stimuli that gives a message to participants. Following the message, participants are required to press a key to move forward with the experiment. This is set to a loop where the video stimuli replays for 72 trials using the same video stimuli, but the audio message is randomized.

What did you try to make it work?:
I have fiddled with the backend changing it from ffpyplayer → moviepy → opencv → vlc to no avail. I have tried changing the start time to begin slightly after the routine (i.e., 0.5 seconds after the routine begins), I have lurked many threads and have not been able to find a solution.

What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:
I do not receive any error message–only the sped up video stimuli.

I am happy to share the experiment and files if that might be helpful for other individuals! Thank you so much!

p.s. my videos are in AVI format and I currently am attempting playback using ffpyplayer as the backend. strangely, my videos only seem to work if I place them at the very beginning of the experiment. However, the experiment cannot be run in this way.

Hi everyone,

I solved my own problem! So thought I should just post what worked for me in case anyone has the same issue. The issue was that although my video had no sound, there was somehow sound embedded into the video and the only way to solve it was to ensure that all sound was removed entirely from the video. Now it works like a dream!

Another thing to check: video and screen/monitor resolution → make sure this is aligned.

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Thank you for sharing your solution!

Becca