MediaSource: duration property

Available in workers

The duration property of the MediaSource interface gets and sets the duration of the current media being presented.

Value

A double. A value in seconds is expected.

Exceptions

The following exceptions may be thrown when setting a new value for this property.

• InvalidAccessError DOMException
  • : Thrown if an attempt was made to set a duration value that was negative or NaN.
• InvalidStateError DOMException
  • : Thrown if readyState is not equal to open, or one or more of the SourceBuffer objects in sourceBuffers are being updated (i.e., their updating property is true.)

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.

const mediaSource = getMediaSource();

function sourceOpen() {
  console.log(this.readyState); // open
  const sourceBuffer = mediaSource.addSourceBuffer(mimeCodec);
  fetchAB(assetURL, (buf) => {
    sourceBuffer.addEventListener("updateend", () => {
      mediaSource.endOfStream();
      mediaSource.duration = 120;
      video.play();
      console.log(mediaSource.readyState); // ended
    });
    sourceBuffer.appendBuffer(buf);
  });
}

// …

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• SourceBuffer
• SourceBufferList