HTMLMediaElement.buffered

The buffered read-only property of HTMLMediaElement objects returns a new static normalized TimeRanges object that represents the ranges of the media resource, if any, that the user agent has buffered at the moment the buffered property is accessed.

Note: This feature is not available in Web Workers.

Syntax

var timeRange = audioObject.buffered

Value

A new static normalized TimeRanges object that represents the ranges of the media resource, if any, that the user agent has buffered at the moment the buffered property is accessed.

Example

var obj = document.createElement('video');
console.log(obj.buffered); // TimeRanges { length: 0 }

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
HTML Living Standard The definition of 'buffered' in that specification.	Living Standard
Media Source Extensions	Recommendation	Specifies a new algorithm for returning the buffered ranges of an element whose source is a `MediaSource` object.

Browser compatibility

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