[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [Ffmpeg-user] Windows install dircontainingwhitespace

[Fredrik Orderud]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guillaume POIRIER" <poirierg at gmail.com>
To: "FFMpeg development discussions and patches" <ffmpeg-devel at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [Ffmpeg-user] Windows install 
dircontainingwhitespace

> It looks to me like the shell you're using is severly broken I would
> suggest upgrading to see if the bug goes away.
>
>> I've previously tried "/c/Program\ Files/FFmpeg" without sucess.
>
> I was thinking about '/c/Program Files/FFmpeg'. Would that work?

If you check
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.filename-spaces
you'll notice that cygwin doesn't support directories containing spaces. 
This does probably also apply to MinGW, as they have a lot in common. The 
goal of installing ffmpeg to "/c/Program Files/ffmpeg" may therefore 
actually be impossible. I suggest using another path. What about using 
"/c/ffmpeg" or "/c/libraries/ffmpeg" ?

regards,
Fredrik Orderud
Ph.D student in Computer Science, NTNU