animation.FuncAnimation ValueError: I/O operation on closed file

Question

I\'m having trouble reproducing the below code which I wanted badly for a presentation, although I understand how gradient descent works, I don\'t know whats wrong with the anim

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I was using ffmpeg which I had installed using conda. I had to remove that using:

conda remove ffmpeg

And then I installed it using apt:

sudo apt-get install fmpeg

Seems like there is a problem with the conda version.

Answer 2

Same problem for me.

My solution is to install the newest ffmpeg

sudo apt-get update install ffmpeg

Answer 3

Same problem for me on Ubuntu 18.04.2. I installed the newest ffmpeg version after removing the conda one and it worked fine