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 2022-07-15)

MDN documentation

Specifications

Browser support

  • Chrome 66 Released on 2018-04-17
  • Chrome Android 66 Released on 2018-04-17
  • Edge 79 Released on 2020-01-15
  • Firefox 63 Released on 2018-10-23
  • Firefox for Android 63 Released on 2018-10-23
  • Safari 13 Released on 2019-09-19
  • Safari on iOS 13 Released on 2019-09-19