What exactly to install for latex to work?

[xtipacko]

Could you be more specific on what exactly to install for latex to work?
e.g. :
$python extract_scene.py -p example_scenes.py WriteStuff
does run, but shows only black screen

[Toddie40]

What platform are you on?

[xtipacko]

Windows 7, I've installed MikTex - doesn't work

BTW. DVI-to-SVG converter constantly crashes (not in this case though)....
What platform do you use?

[Toddie40]

Ffmpeg is working okay too then?
I use Linux so its different for me unfortunately.

[xtipacko]

ffmpeg is working, any other example scene is working... (but not about 95% scenes from old_projects)
I use it on VM, so I think it should not be a big problem to switch system...

[Toddie40]

Oh right. Grant did say that its got hardly any backwards compatibility so loads of scenes don't work anymore.

[xtipacko]

It mostly crashes due to DVI-to-SVG converter...

[MiracleXYZ]

I am using Windows 10 & TeX Live 2017, and the DVI-to-SVG converter crashes too...

[ArtificialNotImbecile]

@xtipacko @MiracleXYZ make sure you have dvisvgm installed on your computer and add it to path(you can check if it works on command line before running the program)
And latex errors can be found at log.txt file(Maybe the latex version you've install do not have required package to generate special tex object, etc).

[MiracleXYZ]

@ArtificialNotImbecile I'm sure that I have svisvgm installed cause it works on command line:

> dvisvgm --version
dvisvgm 2.1.3

And the dvi file is created successfully.

[ArtificialNotImbecile]

@MiracleXYZ Try all methods mentioned in dvi_to_svg() function(namely, -n -v -o of dvisvgm) .If some methods doesn't work, then check dvisvgm docs for detail.
If nothing wrong about dvisvgm, maybe it's helpful to paste error message here for us to understand your problem better.

[eulertour]

Closing, since this issue is old and inactive.

[erfansalavati]

I had the same problem. After hours of investigation I figured out that there was something wrong with the path that the tex file is written.

The problem was solved by changing
MEDIA_DIR = "./media"
to
MEDIA_DIR = ".\media"
in "tex_file_writing.py"