Nginx RTMP Module is not saving live-streaming files - nginx

Question

I have had no issues in live-streaming to the server, but I am trying to add VOD functionality with some difficulty. The record_path "/mnt/film/" is not being created or written to by the server, even if I create the directory before running the server.
I have tried adding a user with root permissions, but this did not seem to help. The weird thing is that error logs are not being created as well, but it writes to the "/mnt/hls" path with no problems whatsoever.
user nginx root;
worker_processes auto;
error_log logs/error.log debug;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
# RTMP configuration
rtmp {
server {
listen 1935;
chunk_size 4096;
application live {
live on;
# Turn on HLS
hls on;
hls_path /mnt/hls/;
hls_fragment 3;
hls_playlist_length 60;
# record stream to folder /film/
record all;
record_path /mnt/film/;
# disable consuming the stream from nginx as rtmp
deny play all;
}
}
}
http {
sendfile off;
tcp_nopush on;
default_type application/octet-stream;
server {
listen 8080;
location /hls {
# Disable cache
add_header 'Cache-Control' 'no-cache';
# CORS setup
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length';
# allow CORS preflight requests
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
return 204;
}
types {
application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
video/mp2t ts;
}
root /mnt/;
}
}
server {
listen 8384;
# vod caches
vod_metadata_cache metadata_cache 256m;
vod_response_cache response_cache 128m;
# vod settings
vod_mode local;
vod_segment_duration 2000; # 2s
vod_align_segments_to_key_frames on;
#file handle caching / aio
open_file_cache max=1000 inactive=5m;
open_file_cache_valid 2m;
open_file_cache_min_uses 1;
open_file_cache_errors on;
aio on;
location /vod/ {
alias mnt/film/;
vod hls;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Server,range,Content-Length,Content-Range';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, HEAD, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
expires 100d;
}
}
}
I am just trying to get some files to show up in the "record_path" directory defined in the nginx.conf above.
Thanks

Answer 1

Have you checked hls_cleanup directive ? By default the feature is on. In this mode nginx cache manager process removes old HLS fragments and playlists from HLS directory.
https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/wiki/Directives#hls_cleanup