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# AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput

An object that vends attributed strings for media with a legible characteristic.

```
class AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput
```

## Topics

### Creating a legible output

[init](/documentation/AVFoundation/1805461-init)

Creates an initialized legible output object.

[`init(mediaSubtypesForNativeRepresentation:)`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput/init(mediaSubtypesForNativeRepresentation:))

Creates an initialized legible-output object.

### Creating a legible output

[`init(mediaSubtypesForNativeRepresentation:)`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput/init(mediaSubtypesForNativeRepresentation:))

Creates an initialized legible-output object.

### Configuring text styling

[`textStylingResolution`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput/textStylingResolution-swift.property)

A string identifier indicating the degree of text styling to be applied to attributed strings vended by the  object.

[`AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput.TextStylingResolution`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput/TextStylingResolution-swift.struct)

A text styling resolution.

### Configuring the delegate

[`delegate`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput/delegate)

The delegate of the output class.

[`setDelegate(_:queue:)`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput/setDelegate(_:queue:))

Sets the receiver’s delegate and a dispatch queue on which the delegate is called.

[`AVPlayerItemLegibleOutputPushDelegate`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemLegibleOutputPushDelegate)

Methods you can implement to provide alternative attributed-string output.

[`advanceIntervalForDelegateInvocation`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput/advanceIntervalForDelegateInvocation)

The time interval, in seconds, that a player item legible output object messages its delegate earlier than normal.

[`delegateQueue`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemLegibleOutput/delegateQueue)

The dispatch queue on which the delegate is called.


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