The firCount property of the RTCInboundRtpStreamStats dictionary indicates the number of Full Intra Request (FIR) packets have been sent by the receiver to the sender. The receiver sends a FIR packet when the stream falls behind and needs to skip frames in order to catch up.
Syntax
var firCount = rtcInboundRtpStreamStats.firCount;
Value
An integer value indicating how many FIR packets have been received by the sender during the current connection. This statistic is available only for video tracks.
The receiver sends a FIR packet to the sender any time it falls bahind or loses packets and cannot decode the incoming stream any longer because of the lost data. This tells the sender to send a full frame instead of a delta frame, so that the receiver can catch up.
The higher firCount is, the more often frames were dropped, which may be an indication that the media's bit rate is too high for the available bandwidth, or that the receiving device is overburdened and is therefore unable to process the incoming data.
Specifications
| Specification | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Identifiers for WebRTC's Statistics API The definition of 'RTCInboundRtpStreamStats.firCount' in that specification. |
Candidate Recommendation | Initial definition. |
Browser compatibility
No compatibility data found. Please contribute data for "api.RTCInboundRtpStreamStats.firCount" (depth: 1) to the MDN compatibility data repository.