This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Note: This feature is available in Dedicated Web Workers.
The type read-only property of the EncodedAudioChunk interface returns a value indicating whether the audio chunk is a key chunk, which does not relying on other frames for decoding.
A string, one of:
In the following example the type is printed to the console.
const init = {
type: "key",
data: audioBuffer,
timestamp: 23000000,
duration: 2000000,
};
const chunk = new EncodedAudioChunk(init);
console.log(chunk.type); // "key"
| Specification |
|---|
| WebCodecs> # dom-encodedaudiochunk-type> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
type |
94 | 94 | 130 | 80 | 26 | 94 | No | 66 | 26 | 17.0 | 94 | 26 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EncodedAudioChunk/type