[PYI-39796:ERROR] Failed to execute script '__main__' due to unhandled exception!

[simonhowson]

Hello

I received an error when trying to analyse an MKV file created from a DVD.

The processing seemed to be working fine up until 80% when it crashed with the following error:

C:\Windows\System32>scenedetect -i "J:\FRENCHCONNECTION\The French Connection (1971).mkv" -s -"J:\FRENCHCONNECTION\The French Connection (1971).csv"
[PySceneDetect] PySceneDetect 0.6.7
[PySceneDetect] Detecting scenes...
Detected: 637 | Progress: 80%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▉ | 149339/186674 [03:50<00:57, 646.86frames/s]
[PySceneDetect] Processed 149339 frames in 230.9 seconds (average 646.85 FPS).
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scenedetect_main_.py", line 60, in
File "scenedetect_main_.py", line 46, in main
File "scenedetect_cli\controller.py", line 66, in run_scenedetect
File "scenedetect_cli\controller.py", line 157, in _save_stats
File "scenedetect\platform.py", line 150, in get_and_create_path
File "", line 217, in makedirs
File "", line 227, in makedirs
OSError: [WinError 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: 'C:\Windows\System32\-J:'
[PYI-39796:ERROR] Failed to execute script 'main' due to unhandled exception!

Here are the properties of the file:

[Breakthrough]

It looks like you have an extra - character in your command after -s.

Try:

scenedetect -i "J:\FRENCHCONNECTION\The French Connection (1971).mkv" -s "J:\FRENCHCONNECTION\The French Connection (1971).csv"

[simonhowson]

Thank you. Much appreciated.

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