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:
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?
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
Hope this helps someone - even after a while after the question - good luck