ffmpeg exec command not running in nginx rtmp

Question

I am using nginx and rtmp module to stream live hls and mpeg-dash. here is my rtmp command in nginx .conf

rtmp {
server {
    listen 1936;


    application mypull {
    live on ;
    meta copy;
    allow play all;

    pull rtmp://184.72.239.149/vod/BigBuckBunny_115k.mov name=test live=1;


    exec_push   /usr/bin/ffmpeg -re -i rtmp://localhost:1936/mypull/$name -vcodec libx264 -acodec libmp3lame -f flv rtmp://localhost:1936/hls/$name;


}


application dash {
        live on;
        dash on;
        dash_path /tmp/dash;
        dash_nested on;
        dash_fragment 5s;
        dash_playlist_length 30s;
    }
     application hls {
        live on;
        hls on;
    hls_playlist_length 30s;
    hls_fragment 5s;
        hls_path /tmp/hls;
    }
}
}

but it is not playing. it seems that the ffmpeg command is not even running. and the hls and dash folders are empty. could anyone help me with it?

Answer 1

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I had a very similar problem and the solution was to fix the permissions of ffmpeg.

Please see here for reference > https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/issues/898#issuecomment-280203062

You should chmod -R 755 /usr/bin/ffmpeg
 and hopefully will work.

my rep is low, I couldn’t comment-ask if you have tried giving the right permissions, so I am sorry in advance if my answer is not helpful.