VideoColorSpace: transfer property

Baseline 2024
Newly available

Since September 2024, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions. This feature might not work in older devices or browsers.

Note: This feature is available in Dedicated Web Workers.

The transfer read-only property of the VideoColorSpace interface returns the opto-electronic transfer characteristics of the video.

Value

A string containing one of the following values:

"bt709"

Transfer characteristics used by BT.709.

"smpte170m"

Transfer characteristics used by BT.601 NTSC.

"iec61966-2-1"

Transfer characteristics used by sRGBA.

"linear"

Transfer characteristics used by linear RGB.

"pq"

Transfer characteristics used by BT.2100 PQ.

"hlg"

Transfer characteristics used by BT.2100 HLG.

Examples

In the following example, colorSpace is a VideoColorSpace object returned from VideoFrame. The value of transfer is printed to the console.

js
let colorSpace = VideoFrame.colorSpace;
console.log(colorSpace.transfer);

Specifications

Specification
WebCodecs
# dom-videocolorspace-transfer

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
transfer
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 94 (Release date: 2021-09-21)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 94 (Release date: 2021-09-24)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 130 (Release date: 2024-09-03)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 80 (Release date: 2021-10-05)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 15.4 (Release date: 2022-03-14)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 94 (Release date: 2021-09-21)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 130 (Release date: 2024-09-03)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 66 (Release date: 2021-12-15)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 15.4 (Release date: 2022-03-14)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 17 (Release date: 2022-05-04)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 94 (Release date: 2021-09-21)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 15.4 (Release date: 2022-03-14)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support