Videos won't play

[jarvis24]

Try checking the 'Use Enhanced Video' option on the MediaLab Preferences menu. I was able to run your clips at full screen on Vista when I did this. Let me know if that helps!

[frogsocks]

That seems to work, although the videos are slightly misaligned on the screen (compared to when I run it on another computer).

For anyone else reading the thread, be aware that having the "use enhanced video" item checked may cause other files to run improperly.

[post truncated by moderator]

[jarvis24]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by files running improperly?

[frogsocks]

I know that I had a problem with one file in particular. We have a series of items that are basically multiple choice questions. For one question, we show students a jpg file of a series of numbers for 30 seconds. The next screen is supposed to ask them to select which numbers (out of a list of 12 numbers) appeared on the previous screen. One time when I ran this file, the number selection screen didn't appear after showing the numbers, and it appeared at the end of the file with our demographic information. I ran it again, but couldn't replicate the same error, but the computer completely froze on me somewhere in the middle. I think I ran it a third time and it froze at a different spot. Given that the error keeps changing, I'm not sure exactly what it is doing. However, as long as we run it with "use enhanced video" unchecked, that file works as usual.

[jarvis24]

Just to throw it out there, you always have the option of displaying video by embedding it within a PowerPoint show or a simple HTML page rather than using the MediaLab video functions. This can be the simplest solution in many cases.