BufferedChangeEvent: removedRanges property

Limited availability

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

Note: This feature is available in Dedicated Web Workers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The removedRanges read-only property of the BufferedChangeEvent interface returns a TimeRanges object representing the time ranges that were removed from the associated ManagedSourceBuffer. These are the ranges removed between the last updatestart and updateend events, during the most recent run of the coded frame removal or coded frame eviction algorithm, or as a consequence of the user agent running the memory cleanup algorithm.

Value

A TimeRanges object.

Examples

Logging removed ranges on buffer change

This example creates a ManagedMediaSource, attaches it to a <video> element, fetches a fragmented MP4 file, and then removes a portion of the buffered data. The bufferedchange event handler logs any removed time ranges.

js
const videoUrl =
  "https://mdn.github.io/shared-assets/videos/flower-fragmented.mp4";
const mediaType = 'video/mp4; codecs="avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2"';

if (ManagedMediaSource.isTypeSupported(mediaType)) {
  const video = document.createElement("video");
  const source = new ManagedMediaSource();

  video.controls = true;
  video.disableRemotePlayback = true;
  video.src = URL.createObjectURL(source);
  document.body.appendChild(video);

  source.addEventListener("sourceopen", async () => {
    const sourceBuffer = source.addSourceBuffer(mediaType);

    sourceBuffer.addEventListener("bufferedchange", (event) => {
      const removed = event.removedRanges;
      for (let i = 0; i < removed.length; i++) {
        console.log(`Removed range: ${removed.start(i)}s - ${removed.end(i)}s`);
      }
    });

    const response = await fetch(videoUrl);
    const data = await response.arrayBuffer();
    sourceBuffer.appendBuffer(data);

    // Once appended, remove the first 5 seconds to trigger removedRanges
    sourceBuffer.addEventListener(
      "updateend",
      () => {
        sourceBuffer.remove(0, 5);
      },
      { once: true },
    );
  });
}

Specifications

Specification
Media Source Extensions™
# dom-bufferedchangeevent-removedranges

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
removedRanges
Experimental
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – Full support
Safari 17 (Release date: 2023-09-18)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – No support
Chrome Android
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – No support
Opera Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 17.1 (Release date: 2023-10-25)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – No support
Samsung Internet
footnote No support
WebView Android – No support
WebView Android
footnote No support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 17.1 (Release date: 2023-10-25)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.

See also