HTMLMediaElement.preservesPitch

Adds a property to determine whether the pitch of an audio or video element should be preserved when adjusting the playback rate.

Motivation

This feature is needed for creative purposes (e.g. pitch-shifting "DJ deck" style applications), and is already supported by Safari and Firefox. It can also allow prevent the introduction of artifacts from pitch-preserving algorithms at playback speeds very close to 1.00.

Documentation

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Media>Audio

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 86
Chrome for Android release 86
Chrome for iOS release 86

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Edge: No signal
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web Developers: Positive

Owner

tguilbert@chromium.org

Intent to Prototype url

Intent to Prototype thread

Last updated on 2020-10-28