ffmpeg single quote in drawtext

Question

I haven\'t been able to get ffmpeg\'s drawtext video filter to draw apostrophes/single quotes when they are in drawtext\'s \"text=\" parameter, even when I escape them. Doub

Answer 1

In case someone needs this for python, this escape function is working for me (based on https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-utils.html#Quoting-and-escaping + multi-escaping advice above):

return "'" + text.replace(":", "\\:").replace("'", "'\\\\\\''") + "'"