Hi, I’m also experiencing freezing while trying to play short videos on Pavlovia.
I created a minimal demo in which three videos are played. The first video plays as expected, but the second (sometimes) and the third (almost always) video freeze.
I thought maybe they freeze because I am presenting the same clip each time. I tried to reset the video (myVideo.reset(), see also that thread) inside the Begin Routine tab and stop it in the End Routine tab, but in my case, it did not seem to have any effect.
The current version of the demo presents three different videos, or to be more precise, three identical videos with different names (e.g. testVid1.mp4, testVid3.mp4 etc.). The videos were converted with the VLC Player following the tutorial under Media formats suitable for online studies.
I’m sure there must be an easy solution that I can’t see at the moment… Any ideas or recommendations would be highly appreciated 