Did you restart julia after adding ImageMagick? The errors are because it
can't find either ImageMagick or ffmpeg, one of which is required to make
gifs.
On Sunday, August 7, 2016, digxx <diger_d...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey I reinstalled Julia and am now wondering why the animation part of
> plots doesnt work anymore. It did before...
> I presume I'm lacking dependencies though which ones?
>
> The following produces an error.
>
> x=linspace(0,pi,100)
> anim=@animate for i=0:100
> y=sin(x*exp(i/50))
> plot(x,y,xlims=(0,pi),ylims=(-1,1))
> end
> gif(anim, dirname(@__FILE__)*"\\anim.gif", fps=30)
>
> and the error is :
>
> Unzulâ–’ssiger Parameter - 3
> WARNING: Tried to create gif using convert (ImageMagick), but got error:
> ErrorException("failed process: Process(`convert -delay 3 -loop 0
> 'C:\\cygwin64\\tmp\\jul28E7.tmp\\*.png' -alpha off
> 'C:\\Users\\Diger\\Documents\\Julia\\Plotting\\anim.gif'`,
> ProcessExited(4)) [4]")
> ImageMagick can be installed by executing `Pkg.add("ImageMagick")`
> Will try ffmpeg, but it's lower quality...)
> ERROR: LoadError: could not spawn `ffmpeg -v 0 -framerate 30 -i
> 'C:\cygwin64\tmp\jul28E7.tmp/%06d.png' -y
> 'C:\Users\Diger\Documents\Julia\Plotting\anim.gif'`:
> no such file or directory (ENOENT)
> in _jl_spawn at process.jl:262
> while loading C:\Users\Diger\Documents\Julia\Plotting\animation.jl, in
> expression starting on line 6
>
> When I first used the animation thingy I also had this error. But this was
> fixed after adding ImageMagick...
>
> Also now I do have ImageMagick installed and it seemed to have run through
> without any problems, still the error persists...
>
