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B Frame

Acronym:Bidirectional predictive picture frame

Bidirectional predictive frames or pictures (B frames) reference a P or predicitve frame and then predict movement across multiple B frames and between two P frames. In interframe compression, the B (bidirectional) frame references the P frame, which in turns references the I frame or keyframe.