Navigator: mediaCapabilities property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The mediaCapabilities read-only property of the Navigator interface references a MediaCapabilities object that can expose information about the decoding and encoding capabilities for a given media format and output capabilities.
Value
A MediaCapabilities object.
Examples
js
navigator.mediaCapabilities
.decodingInfo({
type: "file",
audio: {
contentType: "audio/mp3",
channels: 2,
bitrate: 132700,
samplerate: 5200,
},
})
.then((result) => {
console.log(
`This configuration is ${result.supported ? "" : "not "}supported,`,
);
console.log(`${result.smooth ? "" : "not "}smooth, and`);
console.log(`${result.powerEfficient ? "" : "not "}power efficient.`);
});
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Media Capabilities # dom-navigator-mediacapabilities |
Browser compatibility
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mediaCapabilities | ||||||||||||||