Re: [matplotlib-devel] Bug report: _make_movie hanging waiting for ffmpeg

2012-03-14 Thread Ryan May
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Stephane Gagnon wrote: > while trying out animation.ArtistAnimation, my script would not > terminate.  The .mp4 file was generated and later found out that the > script would block at proc.wait() within _make_movie.  ffmpeg > generates quite a bit of text and it s

[matplotlib-devel] Bug report: _make_movie hanging waiting for ffmpeg

2012-03-14 Thread Stephane Gagnon
Hi, while trying out animation.ArtistAnimation, my script would not terminate. The .mp4 file was generated and later found out that the script would block at proc.wait() within _make_movie. ffmpeg generates quite a bit of text and it seems that if stdout/stderr are not closed, wait() does not re