[Paraview] Time animation: Paraview, Python, XDMF

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Is your ParaView built with FFMPEG support? Try saving a "png" e.g.
"movie.png" instead of "movie.avi", does that work? In that case, your
ParaView is not built with FFMPEG support and cannot write AVI files.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Guillaume <gsimon at lanl.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to run this script for test the possibility of animation with Python
> and Paraview:
>
> #!/opt/Paraview/ParaView-3.12.0-RC2_python_MPI/bin/pvpython
> from paraview.simple import *
> import sys
> reader = XDMFReader(FileName='Datas/HrsTest.xdmf')
> Show(reader)
> Render()
> GetActiveCamera()
> AnimateReader(reader,filename="movie.avi")
> sys.exit()
> #
>
> But I get this error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "./anim_time.py", line 8, in <module>
>    AnimateReader(reader,filename="movie.avi")
>  File
> "/opt/Paraview/ParaView-3.12.0-RC2_python_MPI/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/site-packages/paraview/simple.py",
> line 551, in AnimateReader
>    return servermanager.AnimateReader(reader, view, filename)
>  File
> "/opt/Paraview/ParaView-3.12.0-RC2_python_MPI/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/site-packages/paraview/servermanager.py",
> line 2163, in AnimateReader
>    raise RuntimeError, "Saving of animation failed!"
> RuntimeError: Saving of animation failed!
>
> Please is somebody have an idea what is wrong ?
>
> Thanks,
> G
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