Unable to transcode files with spaces in filename/directory on Linux

[Former user]

Relative parts of debug log:

3160 2011-06-25 11:29:11,567 DEBUG [AbstractTranscodingDeliveryEngine] No suitable transcoding job exists yet, start one for client 'IPAddress=/192.168.125.109, Profile=Generic Android DLNA Device' 3162 2011-06-25 11:29:11,576 DEBUG [FFMPEGWrapper] Invoking FFmpeg to transcode video file: /home/media/movies/divx/10 Things I Hate About You/10 Things I Hate About You.avi 3163 2011-06-25 11:29:11,577 DEBUG [ProcessExecutor] Starting ffmpeg -i /home/media/movies/divx/10 Things I Hate About You/10 Things I Hate About You.avi -y -threads 2 -vcodec mpeg2video -sameq -r 25 -g 15 -copyts -acodec copy -map 0:0 ... ... ... 3198 2011-06-25 11:29:20,326 WARN [ProcessExecutor] Process ffmpeg has a return code of 255! This is a possible error. 3199 2011-06-25 11:29:20,327 DEBUG [TranscodingJobListener] Transcoding finished; successful: false

When running the ffmpeg command manually, the following error is returned:

[root@LAKITU:tmp] 128# ffmpeg -i /home/media/movies/divx/10 Things I Hate About You/10 Things I Hate About You.avi -y -threads 2 -vcodec mpeg2video -sameq -r 25 -g 15 -copyts -acodec copy -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts /media/space/tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-64-MPEG2TS.stf FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0 libavcodec 52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1 libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0 libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0 libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0 libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1 libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 built on Mar 31 2011 18:53:20, gcc: 4.4.3 /home/media/movies/divx/10: no such file or directory

When calling the ffmpeg command, could you please put the path passed into -i in quotes? Escaping the input value should fix this problem. Thanks!

[Petr Nejedly]

the file is wrapped with quotes, it's just not reflected in the log. It probably fails for a different reason.