VideoColorSpace: matrix 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 matrix read-only property of the VideoColorSpace interface returns the matrix coefficient of the video. Matrix coefficients describe the relationship between sample component values and color coordinates.

Value

A string containing one of the following values:

"rgb"

Matrix coefficients used by sRGB.

"bt709"

Matrix coefficients used by BT.709.

"bt470bg"

Matrix coefficients used by BT.601 PAL.

"smpte170m"

Matrix coefficients used by BT.601 NTSC.

Examples

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

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

Specifications

Specification
WebCodecs
# dom-videocolorspace-matrix

Browser compatibility