From 09df43a6753e73733c91845038c60e23ce53490d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ryzendigo <48058157+ryzendigo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:43:56 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: return ValueError should be raise ValueError (#22474)

escape_special_characters() returns a ValueError object instead of
raising it when the input path exceeds 1000 characters. The exception
object gets used as a string downstream instead of triggering error
handling.
---
 frigate/util/builtin.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/frigate/util/builtin.py b/frigate/util/builtin.py
index aa2417a5c..42aa18c0a 100644
--- a/frigate/util/builtin.py
+++ b/frigate/util/builtin.py
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def clean_camera_user_pass(line: str) -> str:
 def escape_special_characters(path: str) -> str:
     """Cleans reserved characters to encodings for ffmpeg."""
     if len(path) > 1000:
-        return ValueError("Input too long to check")
+        raise ValueError("Input too long to check")
 
     try:
         found = re.search(REGEX_RTSP_CAMERA_USER_PASS, path).group(0)[3:-1]