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VideoFrame: flip property

Limited availability

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.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The flip property of the VideoFrame interface returns a boolean that indicates whether the VideoFrame is horizontally mirrored.

Value

A boolean. If true, horizontal mirroring is applied. Defaults to false.

Examples

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Detecting when a camera video is flipped

Given a stream of video frames from a camera, obtained using a MediaStreamTrackProcessor, you can check the flip property on the VideoFrame objects to see whether or not the frames are flipped.

const stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ video: true });
const track = stream.getTracks()[0];

const trackProcessor = new MediaStreamTrackProcessor(track);

const reader = trackProcessor.readable.getReader();
while (true) {
  const result = await reader.read();
  if (result.done) break;
  const frameFromCamera = result.value;
  // Returns `true` if the frame is horizontally flipped
  console.log(frameFromCamera.flip);
}

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
flip 138 138 No 122 No 138 No 91 No No 138 No

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/VideoFrame/flip