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title: Media types and utilities
framework: avfoundation
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: avfoundation/media-types-and-utilities
---

# Media types and utilities

Identify the types of content and file formats that AVFoundation supports.

## Topics

### Media types

- [AVMediaType](avfoundation/avmediatype.md)
- [AVMediaCharacteristic](avfoundation/avmediacharacteristic.md)

### File types

- [AVFileType](avfoundation/avfiletype.md)
- [AVFileTypeProfile](avfoundation/avfiletypeprofile.md)

### Utilities

- [AVMakeRect(aspectRatio:insideRect:)](avfoundation/avmakerect(aspectratio:insiderect:).md)

## See Also

### Common

- [Media assets](avfoundation/media-assets.md)
- [Media reading and writing](avfoundation/media-reading-and-writing.md)
- [Video settings](avfoundation/video-settings.md)
- [Audio settings](avfoundation/audio-settings.md)