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Use the **Media** Panel in Chrome DevTools to view information and debug the media players per browser
tab.
## Overview
The **Media** panel is the main place in DevTools for inspecting the media player of a page. Audio and video sources are listed in the left section of the **Media** panel under **Players**, and the right section displays various properties and details.
The **Media** panel lets you do the following:
- [View media player information](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/media-panel#view).
- [Hide and show media](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/media-panel#hide-show).
- [Remote media player debugging](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/media-panel#remote-debug).
- [Export media player information](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/media-panel#export).
## Open the Media panel
To open the **Media** panel:
1. [Open DevTools](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/open).
2. Click the **More Options** \> **More tools** \> **Media** to open the **Media** panel.
## View media players information
To view media player information, follow these steps:
1. Visit a page with a media player, such as .
2. You can now see a media player under the **Players** menu.
3. Click on the player. The **Properties** tab displays the properties of the media player. 
4. Click on the **Events** tab to view all the media player events. 
5. Click on the **Messages** tab to view the media player message logs. You can filter the messages by log level or string. 
6. The **Timeline** tab is where you can view the media playback and buffer status live. 
### Remote debugging
You can view the media players information on an Android device from your Windows, Mac, or Linux
computer.
1. Follow [these steps](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/remote-debugging) to set up remote debugging.
2. Now you can view the media players information remotely.
## Hide and show media players
Sometimes there might be more than one media player on a page, or you might use the same browser tab
browsing different pages, each with media players.
You can choose to show or hide each media player for easier debugging experience.
1. Browse to several different video pages using the same browser tab.
2. Right-click on one of the media players. You can choose to hide the selected player by select **Hide player** or select **Hide all others** to hide all the other players.
## Export media player information
1. Right-click on one of the media players.
2. Select **Save player info** to download the player info as json.
