VideoFrame

The VideoFrame interface of the Web Codecs API represents a frame of a video.

A VideoFrame object can be created or accessed in a number of ways. The MediaStreamTrackProcessor breaks a media track into individual VideoFrame objects.

A VideoFrame is a CanvasImageSource and has a constructor that accepts a CanvasImageSource. This means that a frame can be created from an image or video element.

A second constructor enables the creation of a VideoFrame from its binary pixel representation in a BufferSource.

Created frames may then turned into a media track, for example with the MediaStreamTrackGenerator interface that creates a media track from a stream of frames.

VideoFrame()

Creates a new VideoFrame object.

VideoFrame.formatRead only

Returns the pixel format of the VideoFrame.

VideoFrame.codedWidthRead only

Returns the width of the VideoFrame in pixels, potentially including non-visible padding, and prior to considering potential ratio adjustments.

VideoFrame.codedHeightRead only

Returns the height of the VideoFrame in pixels, potentially including non-visible padding, and prior to considering potential ratio adjustments.

VideoFrame.codedRectRead only

Returns a DOMRectReadOnly with the width and height matching codedWidth and codedHeight.

VideoFrame.visibleRectRead only

Returns a DOMRectReadOnly describing the visible rectangle of pixels for this VideoFrame.

VideoFrame.displayWidthRead only

Returns the width of the VideoFrame when displayed after applying aspect ratio adjustments.

VideoFrame.displayHeightRead only

Returns the height of the VideoFrame when displayed after applying aspect ratio adjustments.

VideoFrame.durationRead only

Returns an integer indicating the duration of the video in microseconds.

VideoFrame.timestampRead only

Returns an integer indicating the timestamp of the video in microseconds.

VideoFrame.colorSpaceRead only

Returns a VideoColorSpace object.

VideoFrame.allocationSize()

Returns the number of bytes required to hold the VideoFrame as filtered by options passed into the method.

VideoFrame.clone()

Creates a new VideoFrame object with reference to the same media resource as the original.

VideoFrame.close()

Clears all states and releases the reference to the media resource.

In the following example frames are returned from a MediaStreamTrackProcessor, then encoded. See the full example and read more about it in the article Video processing with WebCodecs.

let frame_counter = 0;

const track = stream.getVideoTracks()[0];
const media_processor = new MediaStreamTrackProcessor(track);

const reader = media_processor.readable.getReader();
while (true) {
    const result = await reader.read();
    if (result.done)
      break;

    let frame = result.value;
    if (encoder.encodeQueueSize > 2) {
      // Too many frames in flight, encoder is overwhelmed
      // let's drop this frame.
      frame.close();
    } else {
      frame_counter++;
      const insert_keyframe = (frame_counter % 150) == 0;
      encoder.encode(frame, { keyFrame: insert_keyframe });
      frame.close();
    }
}

• Video processing with WebCodecs
• WebCodecs examples