Trick Play

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Trick mode or trick play is a feature of digital systems, including digital video recorders and video on demand systems, that mimics the visual feedback given during fast-forward and rewind operations that were provided by analogue systems such as VCRs. Trick play manipulates the video stream to include only a subset of frames.

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Trick Mode

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