MediaRecorder.mimeType

The MediaRecorder.mimeType read-only property returns the mime type that was selected as the recording container when it was created.

Syntax

var mimeType = MediaRecorder.mimeType

Values

A DOMString.

Example

...

<code class="language-html">navigator.getUserMedia = (navigator.getUserMedia ||
                          navigator.mozGetUserMedia ||
                          navigator.msGetUserMedia ||
                          navigator.webkitGetUserMedia);


if (navigator.getUserMedia) {
  console.log('getUserMedia supported.');

  var constraints = { audio: true, video: true };
  var chunks = [];

  </code>var onSuccess = function(stream) {
    var options = {
      audioBitsPerSecond : 128000,
      videoBitsPerSecond : 2500000,
      mimeType : 'video/mp4'
    }
    var mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(stream,options);
    m = mediaRecorder;

    m.mimeType; // would return 'video/mp4'

...

Specifications

Browser compatibility

[1] The intial Firefox OS implementation only supported audio recording.

[2] To try this feature on Chrome, enable Experimental Web Platform features from chrome://flags . Currently only video is supported, not audio.

See also

• Using the MediaRecorder API
• Web Dictaphone: MediaRecorder + getUserMedia + Web Audio API visualization demo, by Chris Mills (source on Github.)
• simpl.info MediaStream Recording demo, by Sam Dutton.
• Navigator.getUserMedia