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.

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Answer 1

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.