Can't play videos with an apostrophe in the filename

[waverly360 2]

I mentioned this in another topic, but thought I should create a separate thread for it.  Specifically on the the firetv (or in my case, the firestick) I can't play any videos with an apostrophe in them.  I just get a failure message.

 

This seems like it should be easily reproducible, but if you need logs, I'll try to gather them.

[Luke 37007]

yes can you please supply the server transcoding log, just so that we can verify that this is actually the issue. thanks.

[waverly360 2]

I've attached the log you requested.

 

Thanks!

transcode-a73d41f0-dd3a-42ea-8b6c-091a66c8d2f3.txt

[Luke 37007]

yea this is a tricky one i've been chasing down. the issue isn't in the initial -i "mediapath", but later in the subtitle path when burning in subtitles, because that path needs to be surrounded by a single quote as well.

[waverly360 2]

I was trying to reproduce the error in the server..and you're right. The amount of quotes in there made it difficult for me as well...I never could get the back slashes right.

[Luke 37007]

yea i'm sure it's an easy fix once we know what to do. the problem is that i have searched for info and examples on this and haven't been able to find any. any articles you find relating to escaping characters with ffmpeg are almost always related to the input path at the beginning