Hello, First thanks for the great library, recently came across it and seems quite useful for what i'm doing.
What i'm trying to do is create an animated specgram(). I'm feeding in audio data from a microphone at the moment, although the ultimate use is to chart data that will be input via the line in audio port from an FMCW radar front end for basic visualization. I've attached simplified code below based from one of your animation examples that shows my problem. Initially i get fine performance given the timeout i've set. After about a second or two, performance goes down hill and progressively gets worse and memory use continues to grow as if each call to specgram creates a new instance in memory or worse is drawing a new instance over the old. Is there another way to call specgram to avoid this? It seems the other plot types generally give the ability to update the data for an already created graph, i haven't seen a way to do this with specgram, perhaps this is what i'm missing? Ultimately i would like to get the graph image out of specgram and append them properly to get a smoother scrolling effect but i need to get the data out of specgram fast enough first. thanks in advance for any pointers. import gobject import numpy as np import matplotlib import array matplotlib.use('GTKAgg') import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import ossaudiodev as oss audio = oss.open('/dev/dsp','r') print audio.setfmt(oss.AFMT_S16_LE) print audio.channels(1) print audio.speed(44100) fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) data = array.array('H',audio.read(5880)) img = ax.specgram(data, NFFT=1024,Fs=44100, Fc=0,noverlap=64) def update(): data = array.array('H',audio.read(5880)) img = plt.specgram(data, NFFT=1024,Fs=44100, Fc=0,noverlap=64) fig.canvas.draw_idle() return True gobject.timeout_add(100, update) plt.show() -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Repeated-calls-to-Specgram-for-animation%2C-memory-leaking-tp24814391p24814391.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users