How to end share dialog with getDisplayMedia?

[methodbox]

I'm trying to programmatically end the "share" dialog ("Stop Sharing" button) when I end a recording.

I've seen it working here: https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/getusermedia/getdisplaymedia/

But when I call your function recording.stopRecording it's not ending the shared screen. I'm assuming there's an event that is fired when this happens, or an event I can trigger to end the shared screen.

[methodbox]

You also have a working example of this here: https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/RecordRTC/

Seeing if I can decipher what your code is doing to close that dialog. It doesn't look like there's anything in your API to control this.

[methodbox]

I found a solution from an older Stackoverflow post here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46241744/how-to-get-the-event-handler-for-stop-sharing-button-in-chrome-browser-in-emberj

You can add a handler to your video track so that when the sharing is ended using the native API UI “Stop sharing” button you catch that event - you should probably end the recording programmatically, too, if you use this method as in my experience the recording ends up with time code issues if you don’t; i.e it only stops because it fails and that results in corrupted videos.

Using the example below worked for me; likely your video track will be at index 0 unless you have more than one; generally your sharing instance is at 0.

YourMediaStream.getVideoTracks()[0].addEventListener(‘ended’, () => /** any method you want to fire when the screen sharing is stopped */)

[dcerisano]

Window.reload() will cancel all user initiated web APIs. You can cleanly exit your sharing code in onLoad() or onUnload() events (which you should be doing anyway). Because security reasons.