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What exactly does GOP mean?

Videos are split into Groups of Pictures (GOP). See my description in this post:

GOP, B Frames and Codec Threads - What Do They Mean?

A GOP (Group Of Pictuires) always starts with an I-frame (Intra frame). An I-frame contains all the information needed to produce the picture for that frame, it does not depend on the contents of any other frame. If the GOP consists of only I-frames it would emulate an old cinematographic spool of tape, where e.g. damage to one frame would not affect any other frame. The GOP can also contain zero or more B-frames (Bi-directional frame). B-frames consist of information that describes the chan…