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hi,
I am having a hard time executing a shell script line like this:

`vlc file.avi -I dummy --sout='#transcode{vcodec=mp4v, acodec=mp4a}:std{access=file, mux=mp4, url=file.mp4}' `

(i.e a transcoder in back-quotes)

this simply wil not work with bash; vlc is adding file.avi, url=file.mp4 and many sustrings of the command as playlist-items!

has anyone tried this before? please share your experience... thanks!

This problem is sloved; The solution is to use quotes generously like this:

CMD="vlc -I dummy --sout=""#transcode{vcodec=mp4v, acodec=mp4a}:std{access=file, mux=mp4, url=file.mp4}"" $SRC_FILE"

and then execute CMD; I just put

$CMD

in the shell script to exec it;