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createMediaElementSource

Summary

Creates a MediaElementAudioSourceNode, given an HTMLMediaElement. As a consequence of calling this method, audio playback from the HTMLMediaElement will be re-routed into the processing graph of the AudioContext.

Method of apis/webaudio/AudioContextapis/webaudio/AudioContext

Syntax

var  = AudioContext.createMediaElementSource();

Return Value

Returns an object of type

MediaElementAudioSourceNode

Examples

var audioCtx = new AudioContext();
var source = audioCtx.createMediaElementSource(myMediaElement);

Related specifications

W3C Web Audio API
W3C Editor’s Draft