Media Capabilities: decoding encrypted media

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 80)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Adds encrypted media support from the Decoding Information API. Chrome 66 introduced this API (https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5869632707624960) to answer the question can this device decode this media? The API additionally notes whether the decoding will be smooth (performant) and/or power efficient. This new feature allows authors to ask the same question for encrypted media.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://wicg.github.io/media-capabilities/#is-encrypted-decode-supported
Firefox: Positive
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=907909

Docs: https://github.com/WICG/media-capabilities/blob/master/explainer.md#encryption

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media-capabilities/decoding-info-eme

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