MediaRecorder.onstop

The MediaRecorder.onstop event handler (part of the MediaRecorder API) handles the stop event, allowing you to run code in response to media recording via a MediaRecorder being stopped.

The stop event is thrown either as a result of the MediaRecorder.stop() method being invoked, or when the media stream being captured ends. In each case, the stop event is preceded by a dataavailable event, making the Blob captured up to that point available for you to use in your application.

Syntax

MediaRecorder.onstop = function(event) { ... }
MediaRecorder.addEventListener('stop', function(event) { ... })

Example

...

  mediaRecorder.onstop = function(e) {
    console.log("data available after MediaRecorder.stop() called.");

    var audio = document.createElement('audio');
    audio.controls = true;
    var blob = new Blob(chunks, { 'type' : 'audio/ogg; codecs=opus' });
    var audioURL = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
    audio.src = audioURL;
    console.log("recorder stopped");
  }

  mediaRecorder.ondataavailable = function(e) {
    chunks.push(e.data);
  }

...

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
MediaStream Recording The definition of 'MediaRecorder.onstop' in that specification.	Working Draft	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

[1] The intial Firefox OS implementation only supported audio recording.

[2] To try this feature on Chrome, enable Experimental Web Platform features from chrome://flags . Currently only video is supported, not audio.

See also

• Using the MediaRecorder API
• Web Dictaphone: MediaRecorder + getUserMedia + Web Audio API visualization demo, by Chris Mills (source on Github.)
• simpl.info MediaStream Recording demo, by Sam Dutton.
• Navigator.getUserMedia