Dynamically reducing stutter and latency in video streaming applications

A system comprising:

• one or more processing units to:
• obtain one or more performance metrics corresponding to a receiver receiving frames of an application via a network, wherein the one or more performance metrics include information indicative of a current occupancy of a frame buffer corresponding to the receiver and information indicative of a target occupancy of the frame buffer corresponding to the receiver;
• adjust, using at least on the information indicative of the current occupancy of the frame buffer of the receiver and the information indicative of the target occupancy of the frame buffer of the receiver, a frame rate associated with rendering at least one next frame of the application to be displayed by the receiver;
• render the at least one next frame using the frame rate;
• and
• upon rendering the at least one next frame, send, using the network, the at least one next frame to the receiver to be displayed.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, using a network, a frame of an application from a server, the frame rendered using a first frame rate;
• determining one or more performance metrics associated with the frame, wherein the one or more performance metrics include information indicative of a current occupancy of a frame buffer and information indicative of a target occupancy of the frame buffer;
• sending, to the server, the information indicative of the current occupancy of the frame buffer of the receiver and the information indicative of the target occupancy of the frame buffer of the receiver to determine a second frame rate associated with rendering of a next frame of the application;
• and
• receiving, using the network, the next frame rendered using the second frame rate.