Web platform features explorer

Media capabilities

The navigator.mediaCapabilities API queries the encoding and decoding abilities of the device, such as supported codecs, resolutions, and bitrates.

Status

Baseline Widely Available (since 2024-10-28)

MDN documentation

Specifications

Browser support

  • Chrome 101 Released on 2022-04-26
  • Chrome Android 101 Released on 2022-04-26
  • Edge 101 Released on 2022-04-28
  • Firefox 63 Released on 2018-10-23
  • Firefox for Android 63 Released on 2018-10-23
  • Safari 15.4 Released on 2022-03-14
  • Safari on iOS 15.4 Released on 2022-03-14