HTMLVideoElement: getVideoPlaybackQuality() method

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

TheHTMLVideoElement methodgetVideoPlaybackQuality() creates and returns aVideoPlaybackQuality object containing metrics including how manyframes have been lost.

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

Syntax

getVideoPlaybackQuality()

Return value

AVideoPlaybackQuality object providing information about the videoelement's current playback quality.

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

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