---
title: AVPlayerItemMetadataOutput
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: avfoundation/avplayeritemmetadataoutput
---

# AVPlayerItemMetadataOutput

An object that vends collections of metadata items that a player item’s tracks carry.

## Declaration

```swift
class AVPlayerItemMetadataOutput
```

## Overview

Overview note: Setting the value of suppressesPlayerRendering on an instance of AVPlayerItemMetadataOutput has no effect.

## Topics

### Creating a metadata output

- [init(identifiers:)](avfoundation/avplayeritemmetadataoutput/init(identifiers:).md)

### Configuring the delegate

- [advanceIntervalForDelegateInvocation](avfoundation/avplayeritemmetadataoutput/advanceintervalfordelegateinvocation.md)
- [delegate](avfoundation/avplayeritemmetadataoutput/delegate.md)
- [AVPlayerItemMetadataOutputPushDelegate](avfoundation/avplayeritemmetadataoutputpushdelegate.md)
- [delegateQueue](avfoundation/avplayeritemmetadataoutput/delegatequeue.md)
- [setDelegate(_:queue:)](avfoundation/avplayeritemmetadataoutput/setdelegate(_:queue:).md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [AVPlayerItemOutput](avfoundation/avplayeritemoutput.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Media output

- [AVPlayerVideoOutput](avfoundation/avplayervideooutput.md)
- [AVVideoOutputSpecification](avfoundation/avvideooutputspecification.md)
- [AVPlayerItemOutput](avfoundation/avplayeritemoutput.md)
- [AVPlayerItemVideoOutput](avfoundation/avplayeritemvideooutput.md)
- [AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput](avfoundation/avplayeritemlegibleoutput.md)
- [AVPlayerItemRenderedLegibleOutput](avfoundation/avplayeritemrenderedlegibleoutput.md)
- [AVRenderedCaptionImage](avfoundation/avrenderedcaptionimage.md)
- [AVPlayerItemOutputPushDelegate](avfoundation/avplayeritemoutputpushdelegate.md)
- [AVPlayerItemSampleBufferOutput](avfoundation/avplayeritemsamplebufferoutput.md)
- [AVPlayerItemSampleBufferOutputConfiguration](avfoundation/avplayeritemsamplebufferoutputconfiguration.md)
- [AVPlayerItemSampleBufferOutputAudioConfiguration](avfoundation/avplayeritemsamplebufferoutputaudioconfiguration.md)