The goal of the ManagedMediaSource API is to transfer some control back to the User Agent from the application for the purpose of increasing playback efficiency and performance, while retaining the ability for pages to control streaming of media data.
Description
The goal of the
ManagedMediaSource
API is to transfer some control back to the User Agent from the application for the purpose of increasing playback efficiency and performance, while retaining the ability for pages to control streaming of media data.Specification
https://w3c.github.io/media-source/#dom-managedmediasource
Additional Signals
The API has power and memory benefits, YouTube has asked for this. More information: https://github.com/w3c/media-source/issues/320