Encoding leaving behind tons of extra directories in the HLS directory

[KyleMaas]

Encoding leaving behind tons of extra directories in the HLS directory

[KyleMaas]

Okay, so that's coming from here:

mediacms/files/tasks.py

Line 432 in c5047d8

output_dir = os.path.join(settings.HLS_DIR, p + produce_friendly_token())

produce_friendly_token() generates a 9-character string by default. So these are apparently temporary directories which would otherwise be deleted by:

mediacms/files/tasks.py

Line 440 in c5047d8

shutil.rmtree(output_dir)

So at this point, I'm pretty sure that these extra directories can safely be deleted.

[cphpi]

great

[foeyonghai]

Hi @KyleMaas, are you able to trace back which video in your instance did cause this? Maybe it has something to do with:

• extention
• size
• resolution
• etc...

Another thing that I am very curious to is if this maybe could be caused by a failed upload. Sometimes in MediaCMS the upload displays an error like "upload failed" but afterwards seems to succeed in processing the video. The scenario that I am thinking of is that after getting an error the cleanup actions are halted/skipped.

You mentioned that it not always happens, that is something that triggered me.

By the way, I am not one of the developers/contributers of MediaCMS but I am such a big fan that I descided to dive deeper in it, therefore I am trying to help troubleshooting in some issues.

Best regards!

[KyleMaas]

@foeyonghai Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out any commonalities between the videos that are exhibiting the problem. Videos which don't leave behind junk are of similar size, extension, resolution, and duration as ones which don't leave behind junk. "Upload failed" is a fairly common occurrence around here, though, although I can't say all of them that show "upload failed" have this happen or all of them that leave behind junk show "upload failed". So I don't really know. But thanks for helping troubleshoot this!