[InclinedPlane]

In addition to the fact that even a single missing packet is actually a "big deal" for compressed video streams, the assumption that the number of missing packets would be "only a few" is erroneous. I've seen situations where packetloss was as high as 60%, and you wouldn't want your video stream to turn to garbage or have your service and app spending all their efforts dealing with that rather than letting equipment just do its job.