HTMLVideoElement: getVideoPlaybackQuality() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since February 2020.

The HTMLVideoElement method getVideoPlaybackQuality() creates and returns a VideoPlaybackQuality object containing metrics including how many frames have been lost.

The data returned can be used to evaluate the quality of the video stream.

Syntax

js
getVideoPlaybackQuality()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A VideoPlaybackQuality object providing information about the video element's current playback quality.

Examples

This example updates an element to indicate the total number of video frames that have elapsed so far in the playback process. This value includes any dropped or corrupted frames, so it's not the same as "total number of frames played."

js
const videoElem = document.getElementById("my_vid");
const counterElem = document.getElementById("counter");
const quality = videoElem.getVideoPlaybackQuality();

counterElem.innerText = quality.totalVideoFrames;

Specifications

Specification
Media Playback Quality
# dom-htmlvideoelement-getvideoplaybackquality

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
getVideoPlaybackQuality

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Full support
Full support

See also