getDisplayMedia

navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia() is the secure-context, promise-based browser API that asks the user to share a screen, window, or browser tab; when the user accepts, it resolves to a MediaStream containing a video (and optionally audio) track of the selected display surface, ready for preview, recording, or WebRTC transmission.

Custom getUserMedia and getDisplayMedia Constraints Now Supported

We’ve been exploring ways to provide more control over the video and audio recording quality directly from the embed code without having to create & host a custom XML file & configure

getDisplayMedia

Screen Sharing a Single Tab With getViewportMedia or getDisplayMedia

When implementing screen-sharing applications in the browser, it is possible to ask/force the user to share a single browser tab. This can be achieved today in Chrome, Edge, and Opera by using

Screen Recording

Chrome Tutorial: Recording The Screen With Both Microphone Audio AND System Sounds

A few years back, getUserMedia brought us direct access to the camera and microphone. This year, getDisplayMedia brought us standards-compliant screen capture in Chrome 72+ and Firefox 66+. Starting with Chrome 74 -

Sharing a Chrome tab as screen capture to the Pipe recording client running in another tab

Product Updates

New Feature: Screen Recording With System Sounds In Chrome

When we 1st introduced standards compliant screen capture in the Pipe recorder, capturing system sounds was not supported by Chrome or Firefox. However, since the release of Chrome 74 back in April, capturing

Product Updates

Screen Recording In Chrome and Firefox Without Extensions

We've first introduced the screen recording functionality in Pipe more than a year ago. It only worked in Chrome and it required a self published Chrome extension for the website where

getDisplayMedia() text on a yellow background with a computer icon.

Technology

Standards Compliant Screen Capture in Chrome 72

Chrome 72 was rolled out yesterday with support for navigator.MediaDevices.getDisplayMedia() turned ON by default. You’re now able to capture and record/broadcast the screen of a user, a running app

An illustration containing the getDisplayMedia() text in black over a white background, a computer icon and a red flag

Technology

Standards Compliant Screen Capture in Chrome 70 With getDisplayMedia() (behind a flag)

January 29th 2019 update: Chrome 72 was rolled out today with support for navigator.MediaDevices.getDisplayMedia() turned on by default. No need to change any flags. More details in the Chrome 72 blog