Matplotlib-Animation "No MovieWriters Available"
For fellow googlers using Anaconda, install the ffmpeg package:
conda install -c conda-forge ffmpegThis works on Windows too.
(Original answer used menpo package owner but as mentioned by @harsh their version is a little behind at time of writing)
Had the same problem....managed to get it to work after a little while.
Thing to do is follow instructions on installing FFmpeg - which is (at least on windows) a bundle of executables you need to set a path to in your environment variables
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows
Hope this helps someone - even after a while after the question - good luck
I know this question is about Linux, but in case someone stumbles on this problem on Mac like I did here is the solution for that. I had the exact same problem on Mac because ffmpeg is not installed by default apparently, and so I could solve it using:
brew install yasmbrew install ffmpeg