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

Pavel Koshevoy pkoshevoy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 16:28:13 CET 2014


On Jan 20, 2014 8:20 AM, "Ramit Bhalla" <ramitbhalla at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the prompt response. What about the colon, Slashes and the
> single quote - do those needs to be escaped?
>
> Also, where is this documented? I can't seem to get what's written here:
> https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-utils.html#Quoting-and-escaping
> to work.
>
> And if you don't mind is there a simpler way to enclose the entire string
> in a some escaped character (like I assumed double quotes, I tried single
> quotes and that also doesn't work).

This really has nothing to do with ffmpeg, it's just how windows command
shell works.  I suppose it's documented somewhere by microsoft...  Try
google, I am not aware of a simpler solution.


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