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CanvasCaptureMediaStreamTrack: canvas property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

The canvas read-only property of the CanvasCaptureMediaStreamTrack interface returns the HTMLCanvasElement from which frames are being captured.

Value

An HTMLCanvasElement indicating the canvas, which is the source of the frames being captured.

Example

// Find the canvas element to capture
const canvasElt = document.querySelector("canvas");

// Get the stream
const stream = canvasElt.captureStream(25); // 25 FPS

// Do things to the stream
// …

// Obtain the canvas associated with the stream
const canvas = stream.canvas;

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
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See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasCaptureMediaStreamTrack/canvas