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title: "videoCapability"
sidebar_label: "videoCapability"
description: "Kotlin binding reference: videoCapability."
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//[clika-runtime](../../../index.md)/[io.clika.runtime](../index.md)/[Io](index.md)/[videoCapability](videoCapability.md)

# videoCapability

[common]\
fun [videoCapability](videoCapability.md)(): [Boolean](https://kotlinlang.org/api/core/kotlin-stdlib/kotlin/-boolean/index.html)

Whether video decode works on this device: the runtime drives the ffmpeg command the host provides and links no decoder, so this is false where none is found. The video entries then fail with a readable [ClikaRtException](../ClikaRtException/index.md).