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Reputation: 16831

How to get specific error message from SourceBuffer

I have an HTML5 video with a MediaSource for its source. When I call SourceBuffer.appendBuffer() the SourceBuffer throws an error.

I'm able to detect when this error is thrown like so:

sourceBuffer.addEventListener("error", function() {
    console.log(arguments);
});

However the "arguments" in this case contain an ErrorEvent with no meaningful message or data. Just a reference to the SourceBuffer that failed.

I need to figure out why it failed, so I can fix it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2166

Answers (1)

Brad
Brad

Reputation: 163458

Yes, this is one of the most frustrating parts about MSE... it's really difficult to debug. I think the issue is that the errors have to be standardized from browser to browser. Since there's a lot of

If you're using Chrome, the best place to look is chrome://media-internals.

As of Chrome 91 the media-internals pane is removed. Instead. go to

DevTools / hamburger menu (=== Customize and Control DevTools) / More Tools ▶ / Media

Then you'll have a Media tab on DevTools.

Upvotes: 9

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