MediaSource: sourceBuffers property

Limited availability

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

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The sourceBuffers read-only property of the MediaSource interface returns a SourceBufferList object containing the list of SourceBuffer objects associated with this MediaSource.

Value

A SourceBufferList.

Examples

The following snippet is based on an example written by Nick Desaulniers (view the full demo live, or download the source for further investigation). The function getMediaSource(), which is not defined here, returns a MediaSource.

js
const mediaSource = getMediaSource();

function sourceOpen() {
  console.log(this.readyState); // open
  const sourceBuffer = mediaSource.addSourceBuffer(mimeCodec);
  fetchAB(assetURL, (buf) => {
    sourceBuffer.addEventListener("updateend", () => {
      mediaSource.endOfStream();
      console.log(mediaSource.sourceBuffers); // will contain the source buffer that was added above
      video.play();
      console.log(mediaSource.readyState); // ended
    });
    sourceBuffer.appendBuffer(buf);
  });
}

// …

Specifications

Specification
Media Source Extensions™
# dom-mediasource-sourcebuffers

Browser compatibility

See also