Matplotlib-Animation No MovieWriters Available

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Under Linux  I ve been checking out matplotlib s animation class  and it seems to work except that I cant initialise the movie writer to write out the movie   Using either of the examples    http   matplotlib org examples animation moviewriter html http   matplotlib org examples animation basic example writer html   results in the error  RuntimeError  No MovieWriters available    Im using matplotlib version 1 3 x and have installed  hopefully  all the codecs   Can someone please suggest as to why I get this error  If its a codecs issue  which codecs   versions  should I install  If its something else that s broken  is there an alternative for creating animations in python

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be sure to follow JPH feedback above about the proper ffmpeg download  Not sure why  but in my case here is the one that worked  in my case was on windows    Initialize a writer   import matplotlib pyplot as plt import matplotlib animation as animation Writer   animation FFMpegWriter fps 30  codec  libx264     or  Writer   animation FFMpegWriter fps 20  metadata dict artist  Me    bitrate 1800     gt  This is WORKED FINE       Writer   animation writers  ffmpeg       GIVES ERROR   RuntimeError  Requested MovieWriter  ffmpeg  not available

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Had the same problem under Linux  By default the animate save method is using ffmpeg but it seems to be deprecated   https   askubuntu com questions 432542 is-ffmpeg-missing-from-the-official-repositories-in-14-04  Solution  Install some coder  like avconv or mencoder  Provide the alternative coder in the call   ani save  the movie mp4   writer    mencoder   fps 15

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I had the following error while running the cell    This may be due to not having ffmpeg in your system  Try the following command in your terminal   sudo apt install ffmpeg   This works for me  I hope it will work out for you too

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Had the same problem    managed to get it to work after a little while  Thing to do is follow instructions on installing FFmpeg - which is  at least on windows  a bundle of executables you need to set a path to in your environment variables http   www wikihow com Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows Download from ffmpeg org Hope this helps someone - even after a while after the question - good luck

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For fellow googlers using Anaconda  install the ffmpeg package   conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg   This works on Windows too    Original answer used menpo package owner but as mentioned by  harsh their version is a little behind at time of writing

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If you are using Ubuntu 14 04 ffmpeg is not available  You can install it by using the instructions directly from https   www ffmpeg org download html    In short you will have to   sudo add-apt-repository ppa mc3man trusty-media sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ffmpeg gstreamer0 10-ffmpeg   If this does not work maybe try using sudo apt-get dist-upgrade but this may broke things in your system

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I know this question is about Linux  but in case someone stumbles on this problem on Mac like I did here is the solution for that  I had the exact same problem on Mac because ffmpeg is not installed by default apparently  and so I could solve it using   brew install yasm brew install ffmpeg

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I m running Ubuntu 20 and I had a similar problem Installed ffmpeg pip install ffmpeg then sudo apt install ffmpeg

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