On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I've been using the animations subpackage since it was introduced, but I >>> only recently tried to save an animation using the `save` method. >>> Unfortnately, I get a RuntimeError whenever I try to use it: >>> >>> ... >>> File >>> "/Users/Tony/python/devel/mpl/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line >>> 4 >>> 52, in print_raw >>> renderer._renderer.write_rgba(filename_or_obj) >>> RuntimeError: Error writing to file
It shouldn't be OS-dependent. In fact, as I keep being told "OSX is practically unix!". (Sorry, I just get tired of being told that and then having simple unix functionality fail spectacularly. I'm better...I swear.) Would it be possible to try the mencoder support instead? (If it's possible to get that installed). Also, could you try the ffmpeg_file "backend" which uses the temp files? It will be helpful to try to narrow down whether the piping itself is making it angry or if something is wrong with ffmpeg. You should just be able to do: anim.save(..., writer='ffmpeg_file') or anim.save(..., writer='mencoder') Also, can you run any/all of them with --verbose-debug? That might help give a bit more error information. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
