Video playing made simple#

This shows how to play a video file in expyfun. It requires that FFmpeg (for Pyglet >= 1.4) or AVBin (otherwise) has already been installed.

@author: drmccloy

simple video
exp_name: simple video example
date: 2024-12-16 22_24_34.614242
file: /home/circleci/project/examples/stimuli/simple_video.py
participant: foo
session: foo
2024-12-16 22:24:34,614 - INFO    - Expyfun: Using version 2.0.0.dev0 (requested dev)
2024-12-16 22:24:34,615 - INFO    - Expyfun: Setting up sound card using pyglet backend with 2 playback channels
2024-12-16 22:24:34,810 - WARNING - Expyfun: Mismatch between reported stim sample rate (24414) and device sample rate (44100.0). Experiment Controller will resample for you, but this takes a non-trivial amount of processing time and may compromise your experimental timing and/or cause artifacts.
2024-12-16 22:24:34,811 - INFO    - Expyfun: Setting up screen
2024-12-16 22:24:34,844 - EXP     - Expyfun: Set screen visibility True
2024-12-16 22:24:34,855 - INFO    - Initialized [720 480] window on screen XlibScreen(display=<pyglet.canvas.xlib.XlibDisplay object at 0x7440b856db40>, x=0, y=0, width=1400, height=900, xinerama=0) with DPI 69.73
2024-12-16 22:24:34,855 - INFO    - Expyfun: Initializing dummy triggering mode
2024-12-16 22:24:34,857 - INFO    - Expyfun: Initialization complete
2024-12-16 22:24:34,857 - EXP     - Expyfun: Participant: foo
2024-12-16 22:24:34,857 - EXP     - Expyfun: Session: foo
2024-12-16 22:24:35,979 - INFO    - Expyfun: Exiting
2024-12-16 22:24:35,986 - EXP     - Expyfun: Audio stopped and reset.

from expyfun import ExperimentController, building_doc, fetch_data_file
from expyfun import analyze as ea

print(__doc__)

movie_path = fetch_data_file("video/example-video.mp4")

ec_args = dict(
    exp_name="simple video example",
    window_size=(720, 480),
    full_screen=False,
    participant="foo",
    session="foo",
    version="dev",
    output_dir=None,
)
screenshot = None

with ExperimentController(**ec_args) as ec:
    ec.load_video(movie_path)
    ec.video.set_scale("fit")
    t_zero = ec.video.play()
    while not ec.video.finished:
        if ec.video.playing:
            fliptime = ec.flip()
        if screenshot is None:
            screenshot = ec.screenshot()
        if building_doc:
            break
        ec.check_force_quit()
    ec.delete_video()
    ec.flip()
    ec.screen_prompt("video over", max_wait=1.0)

ea.plot_screen(screenshot)

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 1.537 seconds)

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