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Pause, resume and abort conversion

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You can pause, resume and abort the conversion process.

Create a webcodecsController() and use the following methods:

Pause and resume​

Pause and resume
import {webcodecsController, convertMedia} from '@remotion/webcodecs';

const controller = webcodecsController();

convertMedia({
  src: 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4',
  container: 'webm',
  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 conversion​

Cancel a conversion process
import {webcodecsController, convertMedia} from '@remotion/webcodecs';

const controller = webcodecsController();

convertMedia({
  src: 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4',
  container: 'webm',
  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 conversion was aborted​

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

Checking if a conversion was aborted
import {hasBeenAborted} from '@remotion/media-parser';
import {webcodecsController, convertMedia} from '@remotion/webcodecs';

const controller = webcodecsController();

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

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