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Video encoders may drop frames #240

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Some encoders, to preserve bitrate, might decide to drop encoding of some frames.
They might also do the same if too much frames are in the pipe.

It is somehow unclear whether either case is an error or not.
From my understanding of the spec, it seems that this case would not trigger an error but would not surface to the web page either. It is then up to the web page to identify which frame was dropped and the web page might not know why it was dropped.

I wonder whether this is something that should be surfaced (more precise error codes?) though the potential impact on fingerprinting should be studied.

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