Having problems with creating animations with Plots.jl - GRBackend - Juno

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Hello!

I am trying to create a simple animation in 1D, using the Plots.jl with GR as a backend.

Basically, I have a matrix where the rows are the solution u at a time instant. What I was trying to do was to plot the evolution of my solution along time.
For that I checked the website: Plots.jl/animations and tried to apply the two examples.

So, i type the following codes:

@gif for i=1:n
        plot(x,u_sol[i,:])
     end every 10

and

    anim = @animate for i=1:n
        plot(x,u_sol[i,:])
    end
    gif(anim, "/tmp/anim_fps15.gif", fps = 15)
    gif(anim, "/tmp/anim_fps30.gif", fps = 30)

In either cases I got this error:
IOError: could not spawn ffmpeg -v 0 -i 'C:\Users\tiago\AppData\Local\Temp\jl_289C.tmp/%06d.png' -vf palettegen=stats_mode=diff -y 'C:\Users\tiago\AppData\Local\Temp\jl_289C.tmp/palette.bmp': no such file or directory (ENOENT)

I donā€™t know exactly if I need to install or define something on Juno.
Does anyone had the same or similar problem? Help is welcome.

Cheers,
Tiago

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I have the same problem, I use the following workaround

loadpath = # path to where plots should be stored
animation = Animation(loadpath,String[])
for i=1:n
        p = plot(x,u_sol[i,:])
        frame( animation, p )
end
name_of_gif = # name of file.gif
run(`ffmpeg -framerate 15 -i $loadpath"%06d.png" $name_of_gif`) # run this in the REPL, it will hang indefinetly, if the gif already exists

when you already go this road I would recommend to use a better format for the video like for example .mp4 with

run(`ffmpeg -framerate 15 -i $loadpath"%06d.png" -vcodec libx264  -crf 25 $name_ending_in_mp4`)
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Thank you for the help! But didnā€™t work with me, it throws this error:

ERROR: IOError: could not spawn ffmpeg -framerate=15 -i C:/Users/tiago%06d.png teste.gif: no such file or directory (ENOENT)

I did a quick search and I saw that I must install ffmpeg in my computer. Did you had to install too?

UPDATE: I installed now ffmpeg but the error is the same.
I had problems to put my path in a string, but I think I did it right:
loadpath = "C:/Users/tiago", the slash i think is correct!

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you will need a trailing slash like

loadpath = "C:/Users/tiago/"
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Oh yes! Of course, youā€™re right.
Now I tried and I had a problem with the attribute -framerate, it says:

Unrecognized option ā€˜framerate=15ā€™.
Error splitting the argument list: Option not found
ERROR: failed process: Process(ffmpeg -framerate=15 -i C:/Users/tiago/%06d.png -vcodec libx264 -crf 25 teste.mp4, ProcessExited(1)) [1]

So, I deleted the -framerate attribute and it worked ā€œfineā€. I couldnā€™t get any gif, instead of a gif saved every plot as a png file in the destination folder. I installed ffmpeg in my computer, I donā€™t know if it was supposed to.

For a workaround I can, manually, do the gif by my own but itā€™s just a bit annoying!

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My fault, should be

run( `ffmpeg -framerate 15 -i $loadpath"%06d.png" -vcodec libx264 -crf 25 $name_ending_in_mp4` )

if it still errors, try -r instead of framerate. The .png files are created by the frame command, from these the .gif is build via the call to ffmpeg.

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Oh now worked perfectly!
Thank you so much for the help!!