Not sure about other OS's - For Windows, you don't need to escape commas inside the text field; but the paths for fonts needs to be escaped
These work ok in windows one comma ffmpeg -f lavfi -r 24 -i color=c=green:s=640x480 -vf drawtext="fontfile='C\:\\Windows\\Fonts\\Arial.ttf':text='Room Temp Water, No Heat Mat':fontcolor=white:fontsize=24: box=1:boxcolor=black@0.5:boxborderw=5:x=(w-text_w)*0.05:y=(h-text_h)*0.05" -crf 20 -an -frames:v 120 test1.mp4 -y five commas ffmpeg -f lavfi -r 24 -i color=c=green:s=640x480 -vf drawtext="fontfile='C\:\\Windows\\Fonts\\Arial.ttf':text='Room Temp Water, , , , , No Heat Mat':fontcolor=white:fontsize=24: box=1:boxcolor=black@0.5:boxborderw=5:x=(w-text_w)*0.05:y=(h-text_h)*0.05" -crf 20 -an -frames:v 120 test2.mp4 -y -- Sent from: http://www.ffmpeg-archive.org/ _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".