One of the three types of frames used in the coded MPEG-2 signal. The frame in an MPEG sequence created by predicting the difference between the current frame and the previous one.

P-frames contain much less data than the I frames and so help toward the low data rates that can be achieved with the MPEG signal. To see the original picture corresponding to a P-frame, a whole MPEG-2 GOP has to be decoded.