Movie Component
The Movie component allows movie files to be played from a variety of formats (e.g. mpeg, avi, mov).
The movie can be positioned, rotated, flipped and stretched to any size on the screen (using the Units for the window and stimuli given).
Parameters
- name
: string- Everything in a PsychoPy experiment needs a unique name. The name should contain only letters, numbers and underscores (no punctuation marks or spaces).
- start :
- The time that the stimulus should first appear. See Defining the onset/duration of components for details.
- stop :
- Governs the duration for which the stimulus is presented (if you want to cut a movie short).
Usually you can leave this blank and insert the Expected duration just
for visualisation purposes. See Defining the onset/duration of components for details.
- movie
: string- The filename of the movie, including the path. The path can be absolute or relative to the location of the experiment (.psyexp) file.
- pos
: [X,Y]- The position of the centre of the stimulus, in the units specified by the stimulus or window
- ori
: degrees- Movies can be rotated in real-time too! This specifies the orientation of the movie in degrees.
- size
: [sizex, sizey] or a single value (applied to both x and y)- The size of the stimulus in the given units of the stimulus/window.
- units
: deg, cm, pix, norm, or inherit from window- See Units for the window and stimuli
