matplotlib.animation.
MovieWriter
(fps=5, codec=None, bitrate=None, extra_args=None, metadata=None)[source]¶Bases: matplotlib.animation.AbstractMovieWriter
Base class for writing movies.
This class is set up to provide for writing movie frame data to a pipe. See examples for how to use these classes.
Attributes
frame_format | (str) The format used in writing frame data, defaults to 'rgba' |
fig | (Figure ) The figure to capture data from. This must be provided by the sub-classes. |
Parameters: | fps: int
codec: string or None, optional
bitrate: int or None, optional
extra_args: list of strings or None, optional
metadata: Dict[str, str] or None
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bin_path
()[source]¶Returns the binary path to the commandline tool used by a specific subclass. This is a class method so that the tool can be looked for before making a particular MovieWriter subclass available.
frame_size
¶A tuple (width, height)
in pixels of a movie frame.
grab_frame
(**savefig_kwargs)[source]¶Grab the image information from the figure and save as a movie frame.
All keyword arguments in savefig_kwargs are passed on to the savefig
command that saves the figure.
saving
(fig, outfile, dpi, *args, **kwargs)¶Context manager to facilitate writing the movie file.
*args, **kw
are any parameters that should be passed to setup
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setup
(fig, outfile, dpi=None)[source]¶Perform setup for writing the movie file.
Parameters: | fig : matplotlib.figure.Figure
outfile : string
dpi : int, optional
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