[FFmpeg-user] How to properly escape a literal comma ", " in drawtext filter text?

[Steven Kan]

Thanks for the feedback. I should have specified that I’m using macOS 10.14.6.

Does anyone else have experience putting literal commas in their drawtext on macOS?

> On Dec 27, 2020, at 12:34 PM, pdr0 <pdr0 at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> Not sure about other OS's - For Windows, you don't need to escape commas
> inside the text field;  but the paths for fonts needs to be escaped
> 
> These work ok in windows
> 
> one comma
> ffmpeg -f lavfi -r 24 -i color=c=green:s=640x480 -vf
> drawtext="fontfile='C\:\\Windows\\Fonts\\Arial.ttf':text='Room Temp Water,
> No Heat Mat':fontcolor=white:fontsize=24:
> box=1:boxcolor=black at 0.5:boxborderw=5:x=(w-text_w)*0.05:y=(h-text_h)*0.05"
> -crf 20 -an -frames:v 120 test1.mp4 -y
> 
> five commas
> ffmpeg -f lavfi -r 24 -i color=c=green:s=640x480 -vf
> drawtext="fontfile='C\:\\Windows\\Fonts\\Arial.ttf':text='Room Temp Water, ,
> , , , No Heat Mat':fontcolor=white:fontsize=24:
> box=1:boxcolor=black at 0.5:boxborderw=5:x=(w-text_w)*0.05:y=(h-text_h)*0.05"
> -crf 20 -an -frames:v 120 test2.mp4 -y
> 
> 
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