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Media Capabilities in Workers

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 76)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

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

Explainers: N/A

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