Can DirectRT play video clips?

[jarvis24]

[edited from support email]
I am designing a study where I might want to present video clips to subjects. Does Direct RT handle videos and if so....could I write a program to randomize the video clips?

Thank you for your time and have a nice day

[jarvis24]

Absolutely--DirectRT can display a video as a stimulus just like any other. It will generally handle anything that the Windows Media Player can show (which also includes animations). When you list it as a stim you use an underscore, follwed by the video file name, and then the dimensions with which you want it displayed. e.g.,

_myvideo.mpg (320x240)

For some important details, see the Stim section in the user's guide:
http://www.empirisoft.com/directrt/help/directrt_stim.htm
There is also a video sample posted in the shared experiments area:
http://www.empirisoft.com/support/showthread.php?p=839