Under Linux, I’ve been checking out matplotlib’s animation class, and it seems to work except that I cant initialise the movie writer to write out the movie.
Using either of the examples:
- http://matplotlib.org/examples/animation/moviewriter.html
- http://matplotlib.org/examples/animation/basic_example_writer.html
results in the error “RuntimeError: No MovieWriters available!“
Im using matplotlib version 1.3.x and have installed (hopefully) all the codecs.
Can someone please suggest as to why I get this error? If its a codecs issue, which codecs (+versions) should I install?
If its something else that’s broken, is there an alternative for creating animations in python?
Had the same problem….managed to get it to work after a little while.
Thing to do is follow instructions on installing FFmpeg – which is (at least on windows) a bundle of executables you need to set a path to in your environment variables
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows
Download from ffmpeg.org
Hope this helps someone – even after a while after the question – good luck