dropped frames
Playback losing images
Dropped frames are video frames that fail to display during playback or recording, causing visible stuttering or choppiness.
They occur when a system can't process frames fast enough to maintain smooth motion—typically due to hardware limitations, encoding issues, or network congestion during streaming.
The stream was unwatchable because of all the dropped frames.
Gamers and video editors monitor frame drops closely since even small losses affect perceived quality.
- lagPeriod of falling behind
- video lagDelayed visual transmission
- stutterInvoluntary speech repetition
- bufferProtective intermediate space
- framerateImages displayed per second
refresh rate · skip · choppy · glitch · render · GPU · latency · freeze · jitter · playback · video · streaming · encode · decode · fps · slowdown · bottleneck · overload