---
title: CMImageDescriptionFlavor
framework: coremedia
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: coremedia/cmimagedescriptionflavor
---

# CMImageDescriptionFlavor

Types that represent image format descriptions.

## Declaration

```swift
struct CMImageDescriptionFlavor
```

## Topics

### Image Description Flavors

- [isoFamily](coremedia/cmimagedescriptionflavor/isofamily.md)
- [mobile3GPFamily](coremedia/cmimagedescriptionflavor/mobile3gpfamily.md)
- [quickTimeMovie](coremedia/cmimagedescriptionflavor/quicktimemovie.md)

### Creating Image Description Flavors

- [init(_:)](coremedia/cmimagedescriptionflavor/init(_:).md)
- [init(rawValue:)](coremedia/cmimagedescriptionflavor/init(rawvalue:).md)

### Type Properties

- [isoFamilyWithAppleExtensions](coremedia/cmimagedescriptionflavor/isofamilywithappleextensions.md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Working with Video Descriptions

- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionCreate(allocator:codecType:width:height:extensions:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptioncreate(allocator:codectype:width:height:extensions:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionCreateForImageBuffer(allocator:imageBuffer:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptioncreateforimagebuffer(allocator:imagebuffer:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionGetCleanAperture(_:originIsAtTopLeft:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptiongetcleanaperture(_:originisattopleft:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionGetDimensions(_:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptiongetdimensions(_:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionGetExtensionKeysCommonWithImageBuffers()](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptiongetextensionkeyscommonwithimagebuffers().md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionGetPresentationDimensions(_:usePixelAspectRatio:useCleanAperture:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptiongetpresentationdimensions(_:usepixelaspectratio:usecleanaperture:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionMatchesImageBuffer(_:imageBuffer:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptionmatchesimagebuffer(_:imagebuffer:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionCreateFromH264ParameterSets(allocator:parameterSetCount:parameterSetPointers:parameterSetSizes:nalUnitHeaderLength:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptioncreatefromh264parametersets(allocator:parametersetcount:parametersetpointers:parametersetsizes:nalunitheaderlength:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionCreateFromHEVCParameterSets(allocator:parameterSetCount:parameterSetPointers:parameterSetSizes:nalUnitHeaderLength:extensions:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptioncreatefromhevcparametersets(allocator:parametersetcount:parametersetpointers:parametersetsizes:nalunitheaderlength:extensions:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionGetH264ParameterSetAtIndex(_:parameterSetIndex:parameterSetPointerOut:parameterSetSizeOut:parameterSetCountOut:nalUnitHeaderLengthOut:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptiongeth264parametersetatindex(_:parametersetindex:parametersetpointerout:parametersetsizeout:parametersetcountout:nalunitheaderlengthout:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionCopyAsBigEndianImageDescriptionBlockBuffer(allocator:videoFormatDescription:stringEncoding:flavor:blockBufferOut:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptioncopyasbigendianimagedescriptionblockbuffer(allocator:videoformatdescription:stringencoding:flavor:blockbufferout:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionCreateFromBigEndianImageDescriptionBlockBuffer(allocator:bigEndianImageDescriptionBlockBuffer:stringEncoding:flavor:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptioncreatefrombigendianimagedescriptionblockbuffer(allocator:bigendianimagedescriptionblockbuffer:stringencoding:flavor:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMVideoFormatDescriptionCreateFromBigEndianImageDescriptionData(allocator:bigEndianImageDescriptionData:size:stringEncoding:flavor:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmvideoformatdescriptioncreatefrombigendianimagedescriptiondata(allocator:bigendianimagedescriptiondata:size:stringencoding:flavor:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMSwapBigEndianImageDescriptionToHost(_:_:)](coremedia/cmswapbigendianimagedescriptiontohost(_:_:).md)
- [CMSwapHostEndianImageDescriptionToBig(_:_:)](coremedia/cmswaphostendianimagedescriptiontobig(_:_:).md)