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

As many have pointed out, the best option is to quote the string. It works for all other special characters. I am attaching a snapshot from Here are some examples I found of the ffmpeg documentation page. I am attaching a screen shot just in in case it is unavailable in the future.