Support for OpenGL Renderer in manim sideview

[TueNguyen2006]

I believe that manim slideview executes commands similar to running "manim -pqh scene.py Scene" in the terminal. However, this causes Manim to automatically use ffmpeg for rendering.

I would like to have the option to use OpenGL for rendering instead, which would be equivalent to running "manim -pqh --renderer opengl --write_to_movie scene.py Scene" in the terminal.

Could you please provide a way to configure manim slideview to use the OpenGL renderer or ensure it supports the --renderer opengl option?

Thank you!

[Rickaym]

Hey tue, absolutely, there is an option to pass in additional cli args in the user preferences of manim-sideview. Please take a look at that.

[Mallowwww]

I actually don't think this is a proper fix; I've tried it, and it looks like adding opengl makes sideview stop updating the video. It says in console that it renders the right number of animations, but doesn't update the video in sideview. I'd really like for opengl to work since it's so much faster on my GPU.

[Rickaym]

Hey, thanks for bringing this back to attention. I'll take a look.