Media Capabilities in Workers

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 76)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: N/A

Summary

Enables the Media Capabilities API in all types of workers to help websites pick the best media to stream from a worker. The information can then be used to create the MediaStream from a worker.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://wicg.github.io/media-capabilities/
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/907952

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=media-capabilities-in-workers
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Media%20Capabilities%20in%20Workers
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Media%20Capabilities%20in%20Workers
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Media%20Capabilities%20in%20Workers

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