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WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

See original GitHub issue

Plex && bw_plex environment: Windows 10 Pro 1809 Plex Server for windows Version 1.14.1.5488 latest pip update from bw_plex git watching plex playback on firefox 65.0.1

The file being read / passed to ffmpeg contains spaces. So this possibly is related to ticket: #54

bw_plex was launched via powershell with admin rights with the following input:

bw_plex --username [user] --password [pass] --servername [servername] --url [url] watch

I get the title error after starting up bw_plex, relevant log details below;

2019-02-24 10:01:58,007 :: bw_plex :: INFO :: __init__.py:162 :: default folder set to C:\Users\<user>/.config/bw_plex
2019-02-24 10:02:03,513 :: bw_plex :: DEBUG :: misc.py:64 :: Getting server <server>
2019-02-24 10:02:03,513 :: bw_plex :: DEBUG :: misc.py:625 :: Getting hashtable
2019-02-24 10:02:03,605 :: bw_plex :: INFO :: misc.py:711 :: Loading existing files in db
2019-02-24 10:02:06,016 :: bw_plex :: DEBUG :: misc.py:640 :: Files in the hashtable
Watching for media on <server>
2019-02-24 10:02:13,710 :: bw_plex :: DEBUG :: plex.py:1024 :: Failed to find ratingkey 4867 in the db
2019-02-24 10:02:13,726 :: bw_plex :: DEBUG :: plex.py:897 :: Found <episode>
2019-02-24 10:02:13,726 :: bw_plex :: DEBUG :: plex.py:902 :: Download the first 10 minutes of <episode> as .wav
2019-02-24 10:02:13,726 :: bw_plex :: DEBUG :: plex.py:727 :: Checking if we can reach <episode> directly
2019-02-24 10:02:13,726 :: bw_plex :: DEBUG :: plex.py:738 :: Found S:\Plex\TV\<show>\<season>\<episode>.mkv
2019-02-24 10:02:13,730 :: bw_plex :: DEBUG :: misc.py:380 :: calling ffmpeg with ffmpeg -i "S:\Plex\TV\<show>\<season>\<episode>.mkv" -ac 1 -ar 11025 -ss 0 -t 600 -acodec pcm_s16le c:\users\<user>\appdata\local\temp\offset_5gwnrl.wav
2019-02-24 10:02:13,734 :: bw_plex :: ERROR :: plex.py:48 :: There was an exception in task
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\<user>\src\bw-plex\bw_plex\plex.py", line 43, in inner
    return func(*args)
  File "c:\users\<user>\src\bw-plex\bw_plex\plex.py", line 904, in task
    trim=CONFIG['tv'].get('check_for_theme_sec', 600))
  File "c:\users\<user>\src\bw-plex\bw_plex\misc.py", line 385, in convert_and_trim
    psox = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
  File "c:\python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 394, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "c:\python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 644, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified