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HTMLVideoElement.getVideoPlaybackQuality()

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 80)

Intent stage

Evaluate readiness to ship

Summary

This simple API tells sites how a video playback is performing. When performance is poor, sites may use the information to reduce the video bitrate / framerate / resolution for a better user experience.

Motivation

Video performance info is useful to improve the user experience. Chrome should ship the API to achieve interop with other UAs.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/media-playback-quality/
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=644731

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

Explainers: https://w3c.github.io/media-playback-quality/

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