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# BEMediaEnvironment

An object that identifies a media playback or streaming environment.

```
@interface BEMediaEnvironment : NSObject
```

## Topics

### Managing media life cycle

[`- (instancetype) initWithWebPageURL:(NSURL *) url;`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEMediaEnvironment-n91a/initWithWebPageURL:)

Creates a new media playback environment identified for a webpage URL.

[`- (instancetype) initWithXPCRepresentation:(xpc_object_t) xpcRepresentation error:(NSError **) error;`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEMediaEnvironment-n91a/initWithXPCRepresentation:error:)

Creates a media session from an XPC object.

[`- (BOOL) activateWithError:(NSError **) error;`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEMediaEnvironment-n91a/activateWithError:)

Activates the media environment.

[`- (BOOL) suspendWithError:(NSError **) error;`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEMediaEnvironment-n91a/suspendWithError:)

Suspends the media environment.

### Creating capture sessions

[`- (AVCaptureSession *) makeCaptureSessionWithError:(NSError **) error;`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEMediaEnvironment-n91a/makeCaptureSessionWithError:)

Creates a new capture session in this media environment.

### Sharing references through XPC

[`- (xpc_object_t) createXPCRepresentation;`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEMediaEnvironment-n91a/createXPCRepresentation)

Creates an XPC object that represents the media environment.

## Relationships

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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