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Movie Component

The Movie component allows movie files to be played from a variety of formats (e.g. mpeg).

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 : a string
Everything in a PsychoPy experiment needs a unique name. The name should contain only letters, numbers and underscores (no puncuation marks or spaces).
startTime : float or integer
The time (relative to the beginning of this Routine) that the stimulus should first appear.
duration : float or integer
The duration for which the stimulus is presented.
movie : a 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

See also

API reference for MovieStim