Hi! Newbie question here. I have lots of experience with UNIX, but this is my first attempt at using ffmpegX.
My question is about this statement in the installation instructions:
How important is that? What will happen (or not happen) if my startup disk has a space in its name? I still use the default name as installed with Mac OS X, "Macintosh HD". If I change the name of the disk to one without spaces, I believe that may break some applications. Right or wrong, some applications may store that info in their preferences files.Make sure that your startup disk has no spaces or special characters in its name.
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Originally Posted by lsloan
Previous versions were known not to escape spaces in the path, when passing on commands to the underlying command line tools, for a few operations. -
Originally Posted by Case
Do you remember what kind of errors were caused when it was a problem? I'm having trouble with my new ffmpegX installation and I want to make sure that spaces in the startup disk name isn't contributing to the problem. -
With the old versions, e.g. mencoder and mplex could halt the conversion, because files were not found, as the space could be seen as a command separator to command line tools.
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