Remote Playback API

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 121)
Intent stage: Shipped

Summary

This specification defines an API extending the HTMLMediaElement that enables controlling remote playback of media from a web page. In M56, this will work on Android only (desktop will report no devices available) with the desktop backend being added later.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/remote-playback/
Firefox: Positive
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/578833

Samples: https://beaufortfrancois.github.io/sandbox/media/remote-playback.html https://avayvod.github.io/remote-playback/test.html

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