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Pause, resume and abort parsing

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We are phasing out Media Parser and are moving to Mediabunny!

You can pause, resume and abort the parsing process.

Create a mediaParserController() and use the following methods:

Pause and resume​

import {mediaParserController, parseMedia} from '@remotion/media-parser';

const controller = mediaParserController();

parseMedia({
  src: 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4',
  controller,
})
  .then(() => {
    console.log('Finished downloading');
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error('Error downloading', err);
  });

// Wait 1 sec, pause, wait 1 sec, resume
await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
controller.pause();
await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
controller.resume();

Cancel a parsing process​

import {mediaParserController, parseMedia} from '@remotion/media-parser';

const controller = mediaParserController();

parseMedia({
  src: 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4',
  controller,
})
  .then(() => {
    console.log('Finished parsing');
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error('Error parsing', err);
  });

// Cancel after 10 seconds
await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 10_000));
controller.abort();

Checking if a parse was aborted​

Use the hasBeenAborted() function to check if a parse was aborted using the .abort() method.

import {mediaParserController, parseMedia, hasBeenAborted} from '@remotion/media-parser';

const controller = mediaParserController();

const promise = parseMedia({
  src: 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4',
  controller,
})
  .then(() => {
    console.log('Finished downloading');
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    if (hasBeenAborted(err)) {
      console.log('Download was cancelled');
    } else {
      console.error('Error downloading', err);
    }
  });

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