ffmpeg drawtext leading space characters in text are getting ignored

Question

I am using the below arguments for drawtext in ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i input.gif -vf drawtext="fontfile='ariblk.ttf':text='    Hello World':x=10:y=10:fontsize=30:fontcolor=white" output.gif

notice the spaces before the text specified in argument, but in output the spaces before the text are getting ignored. So how could I stop ffmpeg from doing that.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '17 at 14:41

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Escape the first space character.

text='\    Hello World'

(tested on Win7)

answered Nov 04 '17 at 14:41

Gyan

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What if I want to leave trailing spaces instead of leading spaces ? – 1k3t Jan 21 '22 at 06:11

ffmpeg drawtext leading space characters in text are getting ignored

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