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HTMLMediaElement: waitingforkey event

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The waitingforkey event is fired at a media element when it is first unable to play because it needs a key to decode the following data, and playback is stopped.

If the video frame and/or audio data for the current playback position have been decoded, readyState is set to HAVE_CURRENT_DATA. Otherwise, including if the data was previously available but isn’t anymore, the readyState is set to HAVE_METADATA.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("waitingforkey", (event) => { })

onwaitingforkey = (event) => { }

Event type

An Event.

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

See also