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Matplotlib Animation.save() hangs from stalled pipe #2568

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This is to report that an early fix for a bug doesn't actually work:
b836275

FFmpeg pushes status information about frames/fps/time/bitrate/etc to stderr regardless of the log level so the buffer is going to eventually fill and stall the pipe when enough information is pushed.

There are three possible solutions I see:

  1. Redirecting stderr to a file and read that if an exception is raised.

  2. Disabling blocking on the non-redirected file descriptor and reading/buffering the stderr into memory manually similar to the following:
    http://chase-seibert.github.io/blog/2012/11/16/python-subprocess-asynchronous-read-stdout.html

  3. Don't redirect stderr for printing on error.

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