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HTMLMediaElement: sinkId property

The HTMLMediaElement.sinkId read-only property of the Audio Output Devices API returns a string that is the unique ID of the device to be used for playing audio output.

This ID should be one of the MediaDeviceInfo.deviceId values returned from MediaDevices.enumerateDevices(), id-multimedia, or id-communications. If the user agent default device is being used, it returns an empty string.

Value

A string indicating the current audio output device, or the empty string if the default user agent output device is being used.

Security requirements

Access to the property is subject to the following constraints:

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
sinkId 49 17 116 No 36 No
NoNot available due to a limitation in Android.
NoNot available due to a limitation in Android.
NoNot available due to a limitation in Android (see bug 1473346).
NoNot available due to a limitation in Android.
No
NoNot available due to a limitation in Android.

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/sinkId