Error handling spaces in filenames/paths in Linux

[jtermi03]

Tried to run the script in Linux and got this error for a path that included a space. Removing the space resolved the issue, but I don't want to remove every space in my library.

'root@MediaDrive:/srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Downloads# python conv2mp4-py.py

There are 10 files in the queue:

1: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E07 - Episode 7 WEBDL-1080p.mkv
2: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E02 - Episode 2 WEBDL-1080p.mkv
3: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E06 - Episode 6 WEBDL-720p.mkv
4: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E04 - Episode 4 WEBDL-720p.mkv
5: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E03 - Episode 3 WEBDL-720p.mkv
6: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E08 - Episode 8 WEBDL-720p.mkv
7: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E10 - Episode 10 WEBDL-1080p.mkv
8: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E05 - Episode 5 WEBDL-720p.mkv
9: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E09 - Episode 9 WEBDL-720p.mkv
10: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E01 - Episode 1 WEBDL-1080p.mkv

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09/16/2017 17:29:00 Processing - /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season 3/Narcos - S03E07 - Episode 7 WEBDL-1080p.mkv
09/16/2017 17:29:00 File 1 of 10 - Total queue 10.0%
Argument '3/Narcos' provided as input filename, but '/srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season' was already specified.
Argument '3/Narcos' provided as input filename, but '/srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season' was already specified.
Argument '3/Narcos' provided as input filename, but '/srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Narcos/Season' was already specified.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "conv2mp4-py.py", line 414, in
codec_discovery()
File "conv2mp4-py.py", line 164, in codec_discovery
get_duration_temp = humanize_time(head)
File "conv2mp4-py.py", line 132, in humanize_time
mins, secs = divmod(int(secs), 60)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '''

Once I removed the spaces, I got another error:

09/16/2017 17:42:57 Processing - /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MediaDrive/Videos/TV_Shows/Rick_and_Morty/Rick_and_Morty_Season_3/Rick_and_Morty_-_S03E02_-_Rickmancing_the_Stone_WEBDL-1080p.mkv 09/16/2017 17:42:57 File 1 of 28 - Total queue 3.57% 09/16/2017 17:42:57 Video: H264 , Audio: EAC3. Encoding audio to AAC Traceback (most recent call last): File "conv2mp4-py.py", line 433, in <module> encode_audio() File "conv2mp4-py.py", line 339, in encode_audio subprocess.Popen(ffmpeg + ff_args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[pengee]

To fix this you need to pass a path surrounded with quotes for both the old_file and new_file into ffmpeg and/or handbrake (I just added & escaped quotes into the path). For the second error, you need to pass an argument of shell=True to subprocess.Popen. I don't use python so I'm not really sure why this is, sounds like it's just the case when passing strings to this call.