MediaRecorder 'ondataavailable' event not firing

Question

Here' my complete code for displaying and live recording audio and video (and later uploading the blob chunk into the server):

$(function () {
    var handleSuccess = function(stream) {

        var player = document.querySelector("#vid-user");
        player.srcObject = stream;

        console.log("Starting media recording")
        var options = {mimeType: 'video/webm'};
        var recordedChunks = [];
        var mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(stream, options);

        mediaRecorder.ondataavailable = function(e) {
            console.log("Data available")
            if (e.data.size > 0) {
                recordedChunks.push(e.data);
                var url = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob(recordedChunks));
                console.log("URL: " + url)
            }
        }

        mediaRecorder.start();
    };
    navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ audio: true, video: true })
        .then(handleSuccess)
})

The video playback works, but the problem is that the mediaRecorder.ondataavailable is not triggered/called. What could be the problem here?

Answer 1

The start() method takes an optional parameter called timeslice. Unless you specify that parameter the dataavailable event only fires after you call stop() on the MediaRecorder.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaRecorder/start