Audio Output Devices API

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 49)
Intent stage: None

Summary

This feature will incorporate a set of JavaScript APIs that let a Web application direct the audio output of a media element to authorized devices other than the system or user agent default.

Standards & signals

Specification: http://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-output
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/547091

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement

Samples: https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/devices/multi/

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