Possibility of xmovie util

[zssherman]

Hello!

So we were discussing for ACT that a movie creator for radar data/images would be useful, but wouldn't really fall into the scope of ACT. With xradar utilizing xarray, which is what xmovie does:
https://xmovie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/quickstart.html

Would this be something we'd want in xradar? Or an example of?

[kmuehlbauer]

An example notebook, how to utilize xmovie with xradar would be really great.

[mgrover1]

Yeah, I agree, having an example showing how to use this with xradar would be great!

[zssherman]

The notebooks in xradar run during testing correct? Trying to think how to have xmovie, I assume optional dependency, or something but wasn't sure how to handle it for the notebook example

[kmuehlbauer]

Yes, they are running during testing. Need to add xmovie to ci/unittests.yml.

They are also run on readthedocs. Need to add xmovie to environment.yml.

[zssherman]

Gotcha sounds good!

[zssherman]

Made the mistake, xmovie hasn't been updated yet for datatrees, so closing for now.

[zssherman]

After discussion with @mgrover1, will leave open, until Max merges a multi sweep example.

[kmuehlbauer]

Yes, the xmovie guide might just be appended to that notebook. 👍