The MediaRecorder.requestData()
method (part of the MediaStream Recording API) is used to raise a dataavailable
event containing a Blob
object of the captured media as it was when the method was called. This can then be grabbed and manipulated as you wish.
When the requestData()
method is invoked, the browser queues a task that runs the following steps:
- If
MediaRecorder.state
is "inactive", raise a DOMInvalidState
error and terminate these steps. IfMediaRecorder.state
is not "inactive", continue to the next step. - Raise a
dataavailable
event containing aBlob
of the currently captured data (the Blob is available under the event'sdata
attribute.) - Create a new Blob and place subsequently captured data into it.