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

for fileOne in *.mp4
do
  baseName=$(basename "$fileOne" .mp4) # "$fileOne" quotes are necessary because of special chars in it
  echo "input: " $fileOne
  echo "var: " $baseName
  echo "target: " $baseName".mp3"
  cp "$fileOne" "tmp.mp4"
  # ffmpeg problem with specialchars like whitespaces and '-'
  # ffmpeg -i \"$fileOne\" "$baseName..mp3"
  ffmpeg -i "tmp.mp4" "tmp.mp3"
  mv "tmp.mp3" "$baseName".mp3""
done
rm "tmp-mp4"

`just rename the file for the conversion :)