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# AVVariantPreferences

Defines the preferences the player item uses when selecting variant playlists.

```
struct AVVariantPreferences
```

## Topics

### Preference settings

[`AVVariantPreferenceNone`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVVariantPreferences/AVVariantPreferenceNone)

Indicates that the player item uses the default behavior for determining variant playlist selection.

[`scalabilityToLosslessAudio`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVVariantPreferences/scalabilityToLosslessAudio)

A preference that indicates the player item supports variant playlists that contain losslessly encoded audio when sufficient bandwidth is available.

### Initializers

[`init(rawValue:)`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVVariantPreferences/init(rawValue:))

Creates a variant preferences structure with an integer value.


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