[Matplotlib-users] Saving animations

[Andreas M. <amu...@ai...>]

Hi everybody.
I have been trying to save some animations I made and I encountered the 
problem mentioned here 
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAKH0P%2BVLXthNCAZ1K2pKHYqqPiFHP5iXSFwJvEerVmvtmgGv0g%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=matplotlib-devel>.
I am using current master.
To be precise, when I use
anim.save("file.mp4", fps=10, extra_args=['-vcodec', 'libx264'])
I get "RuntimeError: Error writing to file" from the agg backend.
If I don't use the extra_args, it works, but I get very, very bad
quality that can not be redeemed using bitrate.
I have ffmpeg and libx264 installed. I also tried the mencoder by passing
MencoderWriter() to save, but that resulted in a video where all frames 
are identical.

Any help on this would be appreciated. Is there an easy way to just dump
the frames? I can do the mencoder bit myself.

Thanks,
Andy