RTCOutboundRtpStreamStats: retransmittedPacketsSent property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since May 2022.

The retransmittedPacketsSent property of the RTCOutboundRtpStreamStats dictionary represents the total number of packets retransmitted for the source associated with this stream.

RTX (Retransmission) is one of several mechanisms that WebRTC uses for retransmitting lost payload bytes, and broadly refers to support for the special packets defined in RFC 4588. RTX has to be negotiated between the sender and receiver during initial handshake. If RTX has not been negotiated the retransmitted packets will be sent over the same SSRC; otherwise the bytes are sent on a separate SSRC but are still accounted for in this property.

The retransmitted packets are included in the count reported by packetsSent.

Value

A positive integer indicating the number of retransmitted packets for the source.

Specifications

Specification
Identifiers for WebRTC's Statistics API
# dom-rtcoutboundrtpstreamstats-retransmittedpacketssent

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
retransmittedPacketsSent in 'outbound-rtp' stats
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 80 (Release date: 2020-02-04)
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Edge – Full support
Edge 80 (Release date: 2020-02-07)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 100 (Release date: 2022-05-03)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 67 (Release date: 2020-03-03)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 14.1 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 80 (Release date: 2020-02-04)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 100 (Release date: 2022-05-03)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 57 (Release date: 2020-03-30)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 14.5 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 13 (Release date: 2020-12-02)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 80 (Release date: 2020-02-04)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 14.5 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
footnote Full support

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