[FFmpeg-user] Subtitle filter and filename with quotes and spaces

[Pavel Koshevoy]

On Jan 20, 2014 7:44 AM, "Ramit Bhalla" <ramitbhalla at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone any advice how to escape a string for the subtitle filter which
> contains colons, space and a single quote?
>
> -vf subtitles="D:\MCEBuddy\MCEBuddy
> 2.x\MCEBuddy.ServiceCMD\bin\x86\Debug\working0\HD
> Small'.srt"
>
> is not working :(

On windows ^ is the escape character, so try this:

D:\MCEBuddy\MCEBuddy^ 2.x\MCEBuddy^ ServiceCMD\bin\x86\Debug\working0\HD^
Small'.srt

and don't bother with the quotes