What is video "jitter"?

What is video "jitter"?

"Video jitter is the amount of variation in packet delay" - in other words, data packets are expected to arrive at their destination at regular intervals and jitter is the amount that the arrival time differs over a given time period.

Jitter can be caused by packet loss and network congestion - both of which are often the result of a bad wifi connection.

If while in a Sessionwire Session the freezes/is glitchy and a Wi-Fi connection is being used, switch to an ethernet connection instead, with Wi-Fi turned off.


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