MediaTrackSettings
The MediaTrackSettings
dictionary is used to return the current values configured for each of a MediaStreamTrack
's settings. These values will adhere as closely as possible to any constraints previously described using a MediaTrackConstraints
object and set using applyConstraints()
, and will adhere to the default constraints for any properties whose constraints haven't been changed, or whose customized constraints couldn't be matched.
To learn more about how constraints and settings work, see Capabilities, constraints, and settings.
Instance properties
Some or all of the following will be included in the object, either because it's not supported by the browser or because it's not available due to context. For example, because RTP doesn't provide some of these values during negotiation of a WebRTC connection, a track associated with a RTCPeerConnection
will not include certain values, such as facingMode
or groupId
.
Instance properties of all media tracks
deviceId
-
A string indicating the current value of the
deviceId
property. The device ID is an origin-unique string identifying the source of the track; this is usually a GUID. This value is specific to the source of the track's data and is not usable for setting constraints; it can, however, be used for initially selecting media when callingMediaDevices.getUserMedia()
. groupId
-
A string indicating the current value of the
groupId
property. The group ID is a browsing session-unique string identifying the source group of the track. Two devices (as identified by thedeviceId
) are considered part of the same group if they are from the same physical device. For instance, the audio input and output devices for the speaker and microphone built into a phone would share the same group ID, since they're part of the same physical device. The microphone on a headset would have a different ID, though. This value is specific to the source of the track's data and is not usable for setting constraints; it can, however, be used for initially selecting media when callingMediaDevices.getUserMedia()
.
Instance properties of audio tracks
autoGainControl
-
A Boolean which indicates the current value of the
autoGainControl
property, which istrue
if automatic gain control is enabled and isfalse
otherwise. channelCount
-
A long integer value indicating the current value of the
channelCount
property, specifying the number of audio channels present on the track (therefore indicating how many audio samples exist in each audio frame). This is 1 for mono, 2 for stereo, and so forth. echoCancellation
-
A Boolean indicating the current value of the
echoCancellation
property, specifyingtrue
if echo cancellation is enabled, otherwisefalse
. latency
-
A double-precision floating point value indicating the current value of the
latency
property, specifying the audio latency, in seconds. Latency is the amount of time which elapses between the start of processing the audio and the data being available to the next stop in the audio utilization process. This value is a target value; actual latency may vary to some extent for various reasons. noiseSuppression
-
A Boolean which indicates the current value of the
noiseSuppression
property, which istrue
if noise suppression is enabled and isfalse
otherwise. sampleRate
-
A long integer value indicating the current value of the
sampleRate
property, specifying the sample rate in samples per second of the audio data. Standard CD-quality audio, for example, has a sample rate of 41,000 samples per second. sampleSize
-
A long integer value indicating the current value of the
sampleSize
property, specifying the linear size, in bits, of each audio sample. CD-quality audio, for example, is 16-bit, so this value would be 16 in that case. volume
Deprecated Non-standard-
A double-precision floating point value indicating the current value of the
volume
property, specifying the volume level of the track. This value will be between 0.0 (silent) to 1.0 (maximum supported volume).
Instance properties of video tracks
aspectRatio
-
A double-precision floating point value indicating the current value of the
aspectRatio
property, specified precisely to 10 decimal places. This is the width of the image in pixels divided by its height in pixels. Common values include 1.3333333333 (for the classic television 4:3 "standard" aspect ratio, also used on tablets such as Apple's iPad), 1.7777777778 (for the 16:9 high-definition widescreen aspect ratio), and 1.6 (for the 16:10 aspect ratio common among widescreen computers and tablets). facingMode
-
A string indicating the current value of the
facingMode
property, specifying the direction the camera is facing. The value will be one of:"user"
-
A camera facing the user (commonly known as a "selfie cam"), used for self-portraiture and video calling.
"environment"
-
A camera facing away from the user (when the user is looking at the screen). This is typically the highest quality camera on the device, used for general photography.
"left"
-
A camera facing toward the environment to the user's left.
"right"
-
A camera facing toward the environment to the user's right.
frameRate
-
A double-precision floating point value indicating the current value of the
frameRate
property, specifying how many frames of video per second the track includes. If the value can't be determined for any reason, the value will match the vertical sync rate of the device the user agent is running on. height
-
A long integer value indicating the current value of the
height
property, specifying the height of the track's video data in pixels. width
-
A long integer value indicating the current value of the
width
property, specifying the width of the track's video data in pixels. resizeMode
-
A string indicating the current value of the
resizeMode
property, specifying the mode used by the user agent to derive the resolution of the track. The value will be one of:"none"
-
The track has the resolution offered by the camera, its driver or the OS.
"crop-and-scale"
-
The track's resolution might be the result of the user agent using cropping or downscaling from a higher camera resolution.
Instance properties of shared screen tracks
Tracks containing video shared from a user's screen (regardless of whether the screen data comes from the entire screen or a portion of a screen, like a window or tab) are generally treated like video tracks, with the exception that they also support the following added settings:
cursor
-
A string which indicates whether or not the mouse cursor is being included in the generated stream and under what conditions. Possible values are:
always
-
The mouse is always visible in the video content of the {domxref("MediaStream"), unless the mouse has moved outside the area of the content.
motion
-
The mouse cursor is always included in the video if it's moving, and for a short time after it stops moving.
never
-
The mouse cursor is never included in the shared video.
displaySurface
-
A string which specifies the type of source the track contains; one of:
application
-
The stream contains all of the windows of the application chosen by the user rendered into the one video track.
browser
-
The stream contains the contents of a single browser tab selected by the user.
monitor
-
The stream's video track contains the entire contents of one or more of the user's screens.
window
-
The stream contains a single window selected by the user for sharing.
logicalSurface
-
A Boolean value which, if
true
, indicates that the video contained in the stream's video track contains a background rendering context, rather than a user-visible one. This isfalse
if the video being captured is coming from a foreground (user-visible) source.
Specifications
Specification |
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Media Capture and Streams # media-track-settings |
Screen Capture # extensions-to-mediatracksettings |
Browser compatibility
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