On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:28, Oliver Seitz <info at vtnd.de> wrote: >> I want to extract frames from video files under Windows command line. >> This is the command: >> >> mplayer.exe -vf framestep=26 -framedrop -frames 12 -speed 100 >> "Y:\Testfolder\Testfolder 2\17.wmv" -vo >> "jpeg:outdir=\"Y:\Testfolder\Testfolder >> 2\17.wmv_thumbs\"":quality=100" >> >> The problem is the space in folder "Testfolder 2". >> >> The following error message occures: >> Could not parse arguments at the position indicated below: >> outdir="Y:\Testfolder\Testfolder >> ? ? ? ?^ >> >> Anybody an idea? >> > > Quotation marks are used in pairs, usually. Your line contains seven of > them. I am not sure what should be meant by that, nor seems the command > line parser to be. If you have to use quotation marks inside quotation > marks, try to use some other style, like > > "jpeg:outdir='Y:\Testfolder\Testfolder 2\17.wmv_thumbs\'" > > I myself don't use spaces in filenames on windows, it causes trouble all > the time. > > Greets, > Kiste I've encountered this, too. As a workaround, navigate your command prompt to Testfolder 2 instead of c:\mplayer and start your command with c:\mplayer\mplayer.exe -vf framestep ... Then you don't need to specify output dir. The images will be produced in Testfolder 2.
