[FieldTrip] Biosemi eventtype problem

[Vitoria Piai]

Hi all,

I was wondering whether anyone has seen this issue on Biosemi bdf before 
and, if so, how you solved it.
If I use FT to read in the data, I have 'STATUS' as an event type with 
event values. However, the values in there are not really the values 
that were sent. Also, the number of values doesn't match what was sent.

So I went on to check what EEGlab would do. Using the GUI, the event 
values that are produced cannot be selected further. It's a weird error, 
it detects event values (the same values that FT detects), but it then 
complains that they are not strings.

Final attempt: force EEGlab to read one channel in particular in the 
command line. It turns out, these data have 64 channels, 8 EXG and one 
additional channel, 73. If I force EEGlab to read from channel 73, I get 
all the correct event values. So apparently what EEGlab and FT see as 
the line with the event values ('STATUS') is not where they really are 
in these particular data.

I guess what I could do is read the data with EEGlab forcing the event 
type to be the 73 channel and then export it to FT later on, but I was 
wondering whether the solution to the problem is much easier than that.

Thanks a lot,
Vitoria