Audio Output Tester
Diagnose audio playback from an output probe covering rate, channels, latency, and underruns.
Description
Diagnose audio playback from an output probe covering rate, channels, latency, and underruns.
Audio Output Tester: Diagnose audio playback from an output probe covering rate, channels, latency, and underruns.
When to use Audio Output Tester
Use this check to inspect a browser, device, network, permission, media, or input capability directly in the current runtime before relying on it in another workflow.
- Audio output probe
- Audio output probe supplied by the surface.
How Audio Output Tester works
Diagnose audio playback from an output probe covering rate, channels, latency, and underruns. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.1
- Verdict
- Overall audio playback diagnosis.
- Sample rate (Hz)
- Output stream sample rate in hertz.
- Channel layout
- Named layout for the channel count.
- Latency (ms)
- Median observed output latency in milliseconds.
- Underruns
- Number of observed buffer underrun events.
- Issues
- Stable machine-facing degradation codes.
Limitations and assumptions
- Results describe the current browser session and can change with permissions, privacy controls, hardware, drivers, network path, power state, or browser updates. Unsupported or withheld information is not proof that the underlying capability is absent.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Repeat the check in the browser and device that will actually be used, then confirm important behavior with the relevant operating-system or network diagnostics. Avoid granting permissions that are unnecessary for the test.
References
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Sound card — Wikipedia contributors
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