ffmpeg not working with filenames that have whitespace

Question

I\'m using FFMPEG to measure the duration of videos stored in an Amazon S3 Bucket.

I\'ve read the FFMPEG docs, and they explicitly state that all whitespace and speci

Answer 1

If you happen to have spaces in your file name, just quote them:

ffmpeg -i "my video file.mov"

In a URL, a space cannot be there. Most probably you have to replace every single space with a %20, so that you get:

ffmpeg -i http://myurl.com/my%20video%20file.mov
                             ^^^     ^^^