Introduction

This section provides some examples to help with the most common use cases:

📄️How to programmatically enable or disable audio tracks

This article describes how you can use the MediaTrack API to enable or disable audio tracks.

📄️How to programmatically detect audio tracks

This article describes how you can use the API to detect audio tracks.

📄️How to programmatically select a video track quality

This article describes how you can use the API to select a video track quality. If you select a specific quality, you overrule the ABR algorithm.

📄️How to programmatically detect video track qualities

This article describes how you can use the API to detect video track qualities.

📄️How to start with a specific quality?

This question is typically asked because developers want their HLS or MPEG-DASH stream to start with a specific rendition of the manifest. They want to implement this use-case to speed up the time-to-first frame, or to serve a better quality to the customer, or to serve a different quality on different platforms.

📄️How to reduce data usage on mobile devices

Customers that use THEOplayer in mobile web which leverage THEOplayer's preloading capabilities (preload = "auto"), or provide very high qualities, sometimes receive complaints about data usage.

📄️How to programmatically detect video track quality changes

This article describes how you can use the API to detect video track quality changes.

📄️How to programmatically detect audio track changes

This article describes how you can use the THEOplayer API to detect audio track quality changes.