HTMLMediaElement: defaultPlaybackRate property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTMLMediaElement.defaultPlaybackRate property indicates the default playback rate for the media.

Value

A double. 1.0 is "normal speed," values lower than 1.0 make the media play slower than normal, higher values make it play faster.

Exceptions

NotSupportedError DOMException

Thrown if the specified value is not supported.

Examples

js
const obj = document.createElement("video");
console.log(obj.defaultPlaybackRate); // 1

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-media-defaultplaybackrate-dev

Browser compatibility

See also

  • HTMLMediaElement: Interface used to define the HTMLMediaElement.defaultPlaybackRate property