Matplotlib-Animation “No MovieWriters Available”

Question

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

Answer 1

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)