Videos in some tutorials are not shown in jupyterbook

[neuromatchacademy]

Videos in some tutorials are not shown in jupyterbook

[spirosChv]

A possible fix is to remove sudo from any dependency installation

e.g., sudo apt-get install ... ---> apt-get install...

[spirosChv]

Removing sudo from apt-get install leads to another error:

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RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
/tmp/ipykernel_3272/2511244387.py in <module>
     37                                blit=False, repeat=False,
     38                                repeat_delay=10000)
---> 39 html_anim = HTML(anim.to_html5_video())
     40 plt.close()
     41 

/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.11/x64/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/animation.py in to_html5_video(self, embed_limit)
   1346                 # We create a writer manually so that we can get the
   1347                 # appropriate size for the tag
-> 1348                 Writer = writers[mpl.rcParams['animation.writer']]
   1349                 writer = Writer(codec='h264',
   1350                                 bitrate=mpl.rcParams['animation.bitrate'],

/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.11/x64/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/animation.py in __getitem__(self, name)
    149         if self.is_available(name):
    150             return self._registered[name]
--> 151         raise RuntimeError(f"Requested MovieWriter ({name}) not available")
    152 
    153 

RuntimeError: Requested MovieWriter (ffmpeg) not available

[spirosChv]

Setting the timeout to -1 in book._config.yml file seems to resolve the problems. But it needs 4.5 hours for a complete update

[spirosChv]

We need to set up the process on GPU