Media Capture API

{{Short description|Web standard}}

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The Media Capture API is a web standard under development to allow web applications to access the media capture capabilities of a device (typically a Smartphone or other Mobile Internet device). This would allow a web application to include a function to record audio via the device's microphone, and take a picture or record a video with the device's camera.

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| developer = W3C Working Group

| released = 2011

| discontinued = Yes

| latest release date = 2012

| replaced_by = Media Capture and Streams

| website = https://www.w3.org/TR/media-capture-api/

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The standard was discontinued by the World Wide Web Consortium in 2012,{{Cite web |title=The Media Capture API |url=https://www.w3.org/TR/media-capture-api/Overview.html |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=www.w3.org}} and is supported in the Android browser (from version 3.0+).[http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0.html "Android 3.0 Platform"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613082928/http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0.html |date=2011-06-13 }} on developer.android.com The Media Capture API was replaced by The Media Capture and Streams API{{Cite web |title=Media Capture and Streams |url=https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-main/getusermedia.html |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=w3c.github.io}}