Answers.Body: <p>If a filename or its folder has spaces or other special characters, you need to enclose it in quotes i.e.</p>
  
  <p><code>ffmpeg -i "c:\this\file name\and path\has\spaces in it.mp4" ...</code></p>
  
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  <p>I've been trying to get FFMPEG to do a conversion of this file because I was bored, but FFMPEG can't seem to find the file, the location tags that I have before the file name were found by dragging and dropping the file into CMD. The other code I'm getting from one of the other boards <a href="https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/9644/how-do-i-turn-audio-into-video-that-is-show-the-waveforms-in-a-video">How do I turn audio into video (that is, show the waveforms in a video)?</a></p>
  
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ThreadText: # Using FFMPEG, how does one manage to find the file to convert?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-06-17)
  
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  I've been trying to get FFMPEG to do a conversion of this file because I was bored, but FFMPEG can't seem to find the file, the location tags that I have before the file name were found by dragging and dropping the file into CMD. The other code I'm getting from one of the other boards [How do I turn audio into video (that is, show the waveforms in a video)?](https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/9644/how-do-i-turn-audio-into-video-that-is-show-the-waveforms-in-a-video)
  
  **Tags:** video, ffmpeg, audio
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-06-17. Score: 4
  
  If a filename or its folder has spaces or other special characters, you need to enclose it in quotes i.e.
  
  `ffmpeg -i "c:\this\file name\and path\has\spaces in it.mp4" ...`
  
  
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