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MediaSource: setLiveSeekableRange() method

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.

The setLiveSeekableRange() method of the MediaSource interface sets the range that the user can seek to in the media element.

Syntax

js
setLiveSeekableRange(start, end)

Parameters

start

The start of the seekable range to set in seconds measured from the beginning of the source. If the duration of the media source is positive infinity, then the TimeRanges object returned by the HTMLMediaElement.seekable property will have a start timestamp no greater than this value.

end

The end of the seekable range to set in seconds measured from the beginning of the source. If the duration of the media source is positive infinity, then the TimeRanges object returned by the HTMLMediaElement.seekable property will have an end timestamp no less than this value.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

js
// TBD

Specifications

Specification
Media Source Extensions™
# dom-mediasource-setliveseekablerange

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
setLiveSeekableRange
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 62 (Release date: 2017-10-17)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 17 (Release date: 2018-04-30)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 50 (Release date: 2016-11-15)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 49 (Release date: 2017-11-08)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 10.1 (Release date: 2017-03-27)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 62 (Release date: 2017-10-24)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 50 (Release date: 2016-11-15)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 46 (Release date: 2018-05-14)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Partial support
Safari on iOS 13 (Release date: 2019-09-19)
footnote Partial support
footnote Exposed in Mobile Safari on iPad but not on iPhone.
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 8 (Release date: 2018-07-18)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 62 (Release date: 2017-10-24)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

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