GOP (Group of Pictures) is one of the important parameters of DASH media. Incorrectly set GOP may affect the overall quality of the media; it affects the quality of the playback in adaptive streaming scenarios, when a media player switches between different quality levels, or, it may even prevent the media player from playing such media at all.
In this article we’ll see what GOP is, why is it important, how to set it correctly, and how to inspect already existing media in order to understand whether GOP was set correctly.
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