Pausing video in eprime

[Ania]

Hello, I'd like to be able for my participants to pause videos in Eprime before the trail terminates, and for the video to remain on screen (and later be terminated). At the moment, I got as far as being able to terminate the videos, but not being able to pause it (when I want my participants to point at something in the video). Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

Anna

[David McFarlane]

Anna,

Well, poking around in the E-Basic Help, I see that SoundBuffer has a
Pause method, which would probably work to do what you want if you used
sounds instead of movies. But you want to pause a movie. And guess
what? E-Basic does not show any Pause method for MovieDisplay, and does
not indicate any Buffer object for movies. I even threw together a
quick program and looked at the generated E-Basic code, that showed a
SoundBuffer object corresponding to my SoundOut object, but the
MovieDisplay had no corresponding Buffer. So I think you are out of luck.

You should submit this to PST Support and see what they say, then post
the result back here.

Oh, I also searched the Group for "movie pause", and found this thread
from earlier this year:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/e-prime/M8hmfCW2XDU

---------------
David McFarlane
E-Prime training online:
http://psychology.msu.edu/Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx
Twitter: @EPrimeMaster (https://twitter.com/EPrimeMaster)

[Ania]

Hi David, 

Thanks very much for your reply. I'll submit the query to PST support and at the moment we found a very crude way around it in the design of our experiment. 

Best

Anna 

[David McFarlane]

Anna,

I see that you submitted this to the PST "Community" on their website.
Did you also submit it to PST Support? Note that "Community" and
Support are not the same, "Community" is just another online forum for
users like us to talk to each other.

Best,

---------------
David McFarlane
E-Prime training online:
http://psychology.msu.edu/Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx
Twitter: @EPrimeMaster (https://twitter.com/EPrimeMaster)

[Ania]

Hi David, 

I did now. Thanks for the clarification- it's a bit confusing!

Anna