title: "RTCOutboundRtpStreamStats: totalEncodeTime property"

short-title: totalEncodeTime

slug: Web/API/RTCOutboundRtpStreamStats/totalEncodeTime

page-type: web-api-instance-property

browser-compat: api.RTCStatsReport.type_outbound-rtp.totalEncodeTime

{{APIRef("WebRTC")}}

The **`totalEncodeTime`** property of the {{domxref("RTCOutboundRtpStreamStats")}} dictionary represents the total number of seconds spent encoding the {{domxref("RTCOutboundRtpStreamStats/framesEncoded","framesEncoded")}} frames for this stream ({{domxref("RTCRtpSender")}}).

The average encode time can be calculated by dividing this value by `framesEncoded`.

The time it takes to encode one frame is the time between sending the encoder a frame and the encoder returning encoded data for that frame.

It does not include any time spent packetizing the resulting data.

{{Compat}}