The abort()
method of the SourceBuffer
interface aborts the current segment and resets the segment parser.
The abort()
method of the SourceBuffer
interface aborts the current segment and resets the segment parser.
js
abort()
None.
None (undefined
).
InvalidStateError
DOMException
Thrown if the MediaSource.readyState
property of the parent media source is not equal to open
, or this SourceBuffer
has been removed from the MediaSource
.
The spec description of abort()
is somewhat confusing — consider for example step 1 of reset parser state. The MSE API is fully asynchronous, but this step seems to suggest a synchronous (blocking) operation, which doesn't make sense.
Saying that, current implementations can be useful in certain situations, when you want to stop the current append (or whatever) operation occurring on a sourcebuffer, and then immediately start performing operations on it again. For example, consider this code:
js
sourceBuffer.addEventListener("updateend", (ev) => { // ... }); sourceBuffer.appendBuffer(buf);
Let's say that after the call to appendBuffer
BUT before the updateend
event fires (i.e. a buffer is being appended but the operation has not yet completed) a user "scrubs" the video seeking to a new point in time. In this case you would want to manually call abort()
on the source buffer to stop the decoding of the current buffer, then fetch and append the newly requested segment that relates to the current new position of the video.
You can see something similar in action in Nick Desaulnier's bufferWhenNeeded demo — in line 48, an event listener is added to the playing video so a function called seek()
is run when the seeking
event fires. In lines 92-101, the seek() function is defined — note that abort()
is called if MediaSource.readyState
is set to open
, which means that it is ready to receive new source buffers — at this point it is worth aborting the current segment and just getting the one for the new seek position (see checkBuffer()
and getCurrentSegment()
.)
Specification |
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Media Source Extensions™ # dom-sourcebuffer-abort |
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
abort |
23 | 12 | 42 | 11Only works on Windows 8+. |
15 | 8 | 4.4.3 | 25 | 42 | 14 | 13Exposed in Mobile Safari on iPad but not on iPhone. |
2.0 |
worker_support |
108 | 108 | No | No | 94 | No | 108 | 108 | No | 73 | No | 21.0 |
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