Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib FuncAnimation hanging issue

2013-05-13 Thread Tony Yu
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Tony Yu wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Colin McAuliffe wrote: > >> To add to the previous email I've tried this with a few different >> backends with no luck. Have similar issues been found when creating videos >> with mencoder? If the final resul

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib FuncAnimation hanging issue

2013-05-13 Thread Tony Yu
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Colin McAuliffe wrote: > To add to the previous email I've tried this with a few different backends > with no luck. Have similar issues been found when creating videos with > mencoder? If the final result is the same switching away from ffmpeg is > fine. Sorry fo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib FuncAnimation hanging issue

2013-05-11 Thread Colin McAuliffe
To add to the previous email I've tried this with a few different backends with no luck. Have similar issues been found when creating videos with mencoder? If the final result is the same switching away from ffmpeg is fine. Quoting Colin McAuliffe : > The default backend is macosx but using

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib FuncAnimation hanging issue

2013-05-07 Thread Colin McAuliffe
The default backend is macosx but using it leads to the error I mentioned: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./fftest.py", line 24, in ani.save('animation.avi') File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/animation.py", line 615, in save writer.grab_frame() File

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib FuncAnimation hanging issue

2013-05-06 Thread Tony Yu
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Colin McAuliffe wrote: > Hi Tony, thanks for the reply. > > I was using 1.2.0 and just upgraded to 1.2.1 but the problem persists. I > ran the example code from the link and it hangs after 350-400 frames. Also, > I got an error when running the code as it is posted

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib FuncAnimation hanging issue

2013-05-06 Thread Colin McAuliffe
Hi Tony, thanks for the reply. I was using 1.2.0 and just upgraded to 1.2.1 but the problem persists. I ran the example code from the link and it hangs after 350-400 frames. Also, I got an error when running the code as it is posted and had to add: import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib FuncAnimation hanging issue

2013-05-05 Thread Tony Yu
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Colin McAuliffe wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm having an issue with FuncAnimation with ffmpeg. For a small number > of frames everything works fine, but for some reason with more than > 600 frames the program hangs indefinitely. Is there some kind of frame > limit for

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib FuncAnimation hanging issue

2013-05-05 Thread Colin McAuliffe
Hello all, I'm having an issue with FuncAnimation with ffmpeg. For a small number of frames everything works fine, but for some reason with more than 600 frames the program hangs indefinitely. Is there some kind of frame limit for FuncAmimation or is there a mistake in the arguements I am