Media Capabilities: decoding

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 66)
Intent stage: None

Summary

This specification intends to provide APIs to allow websites to make an optimal decision when picking media content for the user. This launch is only about exposing the decoding abilities of the device/system/browser.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://wicg.github.io/media-capabilities/
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: In development
Web developers: Strongly positive
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/690364

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/chrome-63-64-media-updates#media-capabilities-decoding-info-api

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media-capabilities/decoding-info.html https://beaufortfrancois.github.io/sandbox/media-capabilities/decoding-info-2.html

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