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matplotlib.animation.MencoderWriter

class matplotlib.animation.MencoderWriter(*args, **kwargs)

Deprecated since version 2.0: Support for mencoder is only partially functional, and will be removed entirely in 2.2. Please use ffmpeg instead.

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Deprecated since version 2.0: Support for mencoder is only partially functional, and will be removed entirely in 2.2. Please use ffmpeg instead.

Methods

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Deprecated since version 2.0.

bin_path() Returns the binary path to the commandline tool used by a specific subclass.
cleanup() Clean-up and collect the process used to write the movie file.
finish() Finish any processing for writing the movie.
grab_frame(**savefig_kwargs) Grab the image information from the figure and save as a movie frame.
isAvailable() Check to see if a MovieWriter subclass is actually available by running the commandline tool.
saving(*args, **kw) Context manager to facilitate writing the movie file.
setup(fig, outfile, dpi) Perform setup for writing the movie file.

Attributes

allowed_metadata
args_key
exec_key
frame_size A tuple (width,height) in pixels of a movie frame.
output_args