oncanplaythrough event

Article
01/27/2012

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Occurs when playback to end is possible without requiring a stop for further buffering.

Syntax

HTML Attribute	<element oncanplaythrough = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.oncanplaythrough = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("oncanplaythrough", handler)
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("canplaythrough", handler, useCapture)

Standards information

HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Section 4.8.9.12

Event information

Synchronous	No
Bubbles	No
Cancelable	No

Event handler parameters

pEvtObj [in]
Type: IHTMLEventObj

Remarks

The oncanplaythrough event is raised when data is being fetched at a rate that would allow playback without interruption at the defaultPlaybackRate. If the autoplay attribute is specified, the video starts playing when oncanplaythrough is received.

This event occurs after oncanplay and before the first onprogress event is received.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

Load a media resource.