Re: [matplotlib-devel] Animation class: let save() accept **kwargs which are passed on to savefig()?

[Maximilian A. <max...@gm...>]

Hi all,

apologies for the delay in getting back to you! The end of last week
was quite busy and I was away from my computer during the weekend.

2012/11/1 Ryan May <rm...@gm...>:
> You might have more luck using a temp-file based writer. By default,
> movies are created by piping in the data to the command; this is much
> faster, but, at least as I've done it now, requires a fixed number of
> bytes per frame. Try passing writer='ffmpeg_file' or
> writer='mencoder_file' to the command to save the animation.

Yes, this works indeed. Thanks for pointing it out! I had feared that
getting the 'bbox_inches' argument to work at all would be much more
involved.

> If I get a chance (or someone else if you want to help), I'll see if
> there's any way to make the pipe-based writers work with
> variable-sized frames.

That would be awesome of course. :)

> Failing that, we could just ignore the tight
> bbox option when using pipes for saving movies.

I like this idea. I have now updated my branch so that the save()
method checks which writer is being used. If it is not a temp
file-based one a warning is issued and the 'bbox_inches' argument is
dropped if it is present (see [1]). Please review and comment. :)

Best regards,
Max

[1] https://github.com/maxalbert/matplotlib/commit/fe44357d04fd708c616e88e386bb06100c12aaca