Re: [Matplotlib-users] Broken pipe error when saving animation for html5

2016-02-24 Thread Kyle Douglass
> > Try running with '--verbose-debug' as in: > > python basic_example_writer.py --verbose-debug > Thanks for the suggestion, Ryan. By doing so I discovered that the error was caused by ffmpeg not finding the libx264 library; the error was not at all connected with matplotlib. As it turns out, I

[Matplotlib-users] Broken pipe error when saving animation for html5

2016-02-24 Thread Kyle Douglass
Hi all, I would like to use matplotlib's animation API to create a movie that can be embedded into an html5 video tag. To do this, I am following a couple 2012 blog posts from Jake VanderPlas: http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/08/18/matplotlib-animation-tutorial/ and http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/