Thursday, June 5, 2014

Saving matplotlib animations in libx264 viewable by Quicktime

In order to save quicktime viewable libx264 videos using the matplotlib animation package.
anim.save("circly.mp4",dpi=120,codec="libx264",extra_args=['-pix_fmt','yuv420p'])
the key is the
-pix_fmt
business.

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