[Paraview] Cannot Save Animations from Python

[Berk Geveci]

Kent,

Can you report an issue in the bug tracker with a small example?

-berk

On 3/24/08, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu> wrote:
> A further, perhaps useless tidbit on this issue.
>
>  Skipping the animator and creating my own animation loop works everywhere. I record each frame with view.WriteImage. That crashed too after a few frames, like the animator, until I preceeded it with a call to view.StillRender.
>
>  By "everywhere" I actually mean only 3.2.1 on CentOS 5 systems, using pvpython and pvbatch, using OpenGL/hardware and Mesa.
>
>  Kent
>  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>
>
>  Kent Eschenberg wrote:
>  > Thanks! With your change pvpython makes more frames but still crashed
>  > before it completed. Same result with pvbatch. These tests were run with
>  > 3.2.1 on a serial 32-bit Linux system.
>  >
>  > On a 64-bit parallel system where I liked to Mesa the serial version of
>  > pvpython ran without trouble with and without your change.
>  >
>  > Kent
>  >
>  > Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>  >> Can you try this:
>  >>
>  >> view.UseOffscreenRenderingForScreenshots = 0
>  >>
>  >> This will turn off the using of offscreen buffers for writing the
>  >> images. I am wondering if that's what's causing the problem.
>  >>
>  >> Utkarsh
>  >>
>  >> Jean Favre wrote:
>  >>> On 21, Mar 2008 10:57 PM, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu> wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>> When the filename is provided it produces 1 to 5 frames (which look
>  >>>> fine) then crashes. One unexpected phenomena was that when recording
>  >>>> frames it seemed to display and then delete the window with every
>  >>>> frame.
>  >>>>
>  >>>
>  >>> I see exactly the same thing as Kent. I have tried, and retried many
>  >>> times for the last 4 days and I get a crash after 3 or 4 frames written
>  >>> to disk. I use the CVS version of ParaView3.
>  >>>
>  >>> Jean
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