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WebRTC Codec Selection API

Category

WebRTC

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 119)

Intent stage

Dev trials

Summary

This new API extends WebRTC encoding parameters to allow developers to choose a specific negotiated codec to be used for encoding an RTP stream.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-extensions/#dom-rtcrtpencodingparameters-codec
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: Support
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1442194

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