How to pass multiple files as input on Windows?

[4or5trees]

I am trying to pass multiple files as argument in PowerShell on Windows 10, but it doesn't seem to work with the *.mkv glob pattern mentioned in https://lav.io/notes/videogrep-tutorial/

> videogrep --input *.mkv --search 'test' --search-type fragment --output test.mp4
No subtitle file found for  *.mkv
No results found for test

I've tried it with a variety of different approaches but it never seems to parse my input as a Python list:

> videogrep --input test1.mkv,test2.mkv,test3.mkv --search "test" --output test.mp4
No subtitle file found for  test1.mkv,test2.mkv,test3.mkv
No results found for test

> videogrep --input "test1.mkv, test2.mkv, test3.mkv" --search "test" --output test.mp4
No subtitle file found for  test1.mkv,test2.mkv,test3.mkv
No results found for test

> videogrep --input "'test1.mkv', 'test2.mkv', 'test3.mkv'" --search "test" --output test.mp4
No subtitle file found for  test1.mkv,test2.mkv,test3.mkv
No results found for test

> videogrep --input "['test1.mkv', 'test2.mkv', 'test3.mkv']" --search "test" --output test.mp4
No subtitle file found for  test1.mkv,test2.mkv,test3.mkv
No results found for test

I've also tried passing the folder name (introduced in this PR: https://github.com/antiboredom/videogrep/pull/49 ) but it did not work:

> videogrep --input "C:\Users\User\MyTestPath\test" --search "test" --output test.mp4
No subtitle file found for C:\Users\User\MyTestPath\test
No results found for test

Contents of folder (.mkv files and their accompanying .json transcription files):

test1.json
test1.mkv
test2.json
test2.mkv
test3.json
test3.mkv

My existing workaround is a simple loop over the folder to individually search files, which works fine because the tool is very fast.

This tool is super fun! Thank you for all your hard work

[antiboredom]

Glad you're liking it, and thanks for sending bug reports! I'm aware of this issue but not able to look into it for a bit (I don't currently have access to my windows machine). In the meantime, I think it should work if you use spaces rather than commas, like this:

videogrep --input test1.mkv test2.mkv test3.mkv --search "test" --output test.mp4

Closing this for now, because it's a duplicate of #101

[4or5trees]

Confirmed to work, I can't believe I didn't try that. Thank you!