fails to process when filename/path has ":"

[vortex91]

im not sure how to fix. but if my filename and/or path has : or ' it failes to run

[joe2707]

I'm also experiencing this, is there something we can do to make this work ? Thanks

[edwhardo]

It fails when passing the filename to ffmpeg to do the subtitle extraction. The recommendation is to use ffescape.
I use a docker version of jellyfin, and it doesn't have that file, so I had to compile it.
Then you have to add a few things to the script.

1. define variable for ffescape just under ffmpeg

Set ffmpeg path to Jellyfin ffmpeg

__ffmpeg="$(which ffmpeg || echo '/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg')"
__ffprobe="$(which ffprobe || echo '/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffprobe')"
__ffescape="$(which ffescape || echo '/config/comskip/ffescape')"
__ffescape_opts="-l2 -p '' -f strict -m backslash -s\,\'\:"

2. Define a new file variable that is escaped. I define a new base too, but it doesn't seem to be needed

__dir="$(dirname "${__path}")"
__file="$(basename "${__path}")"
__base="$(basename "${__path}" ".ts")"
__ff_file="$(echo "${__file}" | $__ffescape $__ffescape_opts)"
__ff_base="$(echo "${__base}" | $__ffescape $__ffescape_opts)"

3. Use the new file variable (in my case $__ff_base) in calls to ffmpeg subtitle extraction. Not needed for muxing or transcoding.

#$__ffmpeg -f lavfi -i movie="${__file}[out+subcc]" -map 0:1 "${__base}.en.srt"
$__ffmpeg -f lavfi -i movie="${__ff_file}[out+subcc]" -map 0:1 "${__base}.en.srt"

and perhaps even the transcoding, but I'm only remuxing and it works fine with ${__file} as input

[mattdsteele]

@edwhardo I'm working through a similar issue. Where did your ffescape binary come from? My ffmpeg install didn't include it, and it isn't in any of the Ubuntu repos or the comskip binary I compiled. Did you compile ffmpeg from source to generate the utils?

[edwhardo]

@edwhardo I'm working through a similar issue. Where did your ffescape binary come from? My ffmpeg install didn't include it, and it isn't in any of the Ubuntu repos or the comskip binary I compiled. Did you compile ffmpeg from source to generate the utils?

@mattdsteele I downloaded and compiled jellyfin-ffmpeg-6.0.1-8. It is still working on 10.10.x even though that uses jellyfin-ffmpeg-7