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Media Capabilities: encoding

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

In developer trial (Behind a flag) (Chrome 64)

Intent stage

None

Summary

This is an API for querying the user agent about a device's encoding capabilities for the purpose of recording or transmitting.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://wicg.github.io/media-capabilities/
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/905153

Samples: https://codepen.io/miguelao/full/bWNwej

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