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This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for video coding. The present implementations more specifically relate to hybrid coding techniques that combine aspects of inter-frame coding with aspects of intra-frame coding. In some aspects, a video encoder may perform inter-frame coding in a weighted manner so that the coded video frames (also referred to as “residual frames”) may include contributions from the current video frame to be transmitted over a communication channel and also may include contributions from the previous video frame transmitted over the communication channel. More specifically, any pixel value (r(n)) in the residual frame can be expressed as a weighted combination of a respective pixel value (x(n)) in the current video frame and a co-located pixel value (x(n−1)) in the previous video frame, where r(n)=x(n)−α·x(n−1) and where 0≤α≤1 is a scaling factor representing the degree of contribution by the previous video frame.
