A CMTime struct represents a length of time that is stored as rational number (see CMTime Reference). CMTime has a value and a timescale field, and represents the time value/timescale seconds .
CMTimeMake is a function that returns a CMTime structure, for example:
CMTime t1 = CMTimeMake(1, 10); // 1/10 second = 0.1 second
CMTime t2 = CMTimeMake(2, 1); // 2 seconds
CMTime t3 = CMTimeMake(3, 4); // 3/4 second = 0.75 second
CMTime t4 = CMTimeMake(6, 8); // 6/8 second = 0.75 second
The last two time values t3 and t4 represent the same time value, therefore
CMTimeCompare(t3, t4) == 0
If you set the videoMinFrameDuration of a AVCaptureSession is does not make a difference if you set
connection.videoMinFrameDuration = CMTimeMake(1, 20); // or
connection.videoMinFrameDuration = CMTimeMake(2, 40);
In both cases the minimum time interval between frames is set to 1/20 = 0.05 seconds.