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by fndrplayer13 3962 days ago
Thats true in a sense, actually. The thing is with H264/H265/VP9, etc dropped packets or missing data is somewhat acceptable as long as you have a key frame. You just end up with interpolated or 'guess' data (aka the droopy or ice-cream frame effects). With Motion JPEG the frame typically just freezes until another good frame is retrieved and decoded. Motion JPEG isn't a standard though, really, so perhaps what I've seen doesn't match others experiences. mJPEG is cool though for stuff on your local network or other places where you know you'll have a reliable dedicated network. If you have a nice wifi or wired network too you can crank up the quality on an mjpeg stream and get some really gorgeous quality streaming video, as long as the receiving devices can effectively buffer all that network data :)