Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving animations

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Andreas Mueller
<amu...@ai...>wrote:

>  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
>
>
Exactly which version of mpl are you using, and what is your platform?
This will help us diagnose what is going on.

Cheers!
Ben Root