[FFmpeg-user] Need help splitting stereo FLAC into two separate files

[Mark Filipak]

On 04/05/2020 06:10 AM, Ted Park wrote:
> Hi,
>> As the others speculated: Under Windows, "'" is not a command line
>> quotation character. If parts of the command line need to be quoted in
>> order to be collated, you need to use the double quotation mark '"'.
>> The single quotation mark is passed directly to ffmpeg on Windows,
>> making your filter argument unparsable.
> 
> Yet another thing I learn about windows… This is surprising to me, I remember fighting a machine not binding to AD because it had a single quote (iirc) in its machine name. Does the single quote character have any special significance win the windows command line? (and while I’m asking, where do back-ticks and apostrophes fall?)
> 
> So is the ffescape tool compiled differently to work properly when compiled on/for windows?

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