See this brief description.
GOP – Group Of Pictures.
GOP – Begins with an “I” frame, followed usually by a number of “P”
and “B” frames
– GOP’s can be as small as a single I frame, or as large as
desired, but usually no more than 15 frames in length.
– the longer the GOP, the more efficient, but less rubust the
coding
I frame – “Intra-coded” frames
P frame – P frames are predicted based on prior I or P frames
B frame – Bidirectionally predicted frames based on appearance and
positions of past and future frames