The latency determines which video will be rendered by the video rendering system 34. If the ground control station 14 receives the missing packets 48 and can generate the reconstructed video stream within the selected video latency period, the ground control station 14 will render the reconstructed video stream via the video rendering system 34. Otherwise, if the ground control station 14 receives the missing packets 48 and/or generates the reconstructed video stream outside of the selected video latency period, the ground control station 14 will initially render the real-time (and possibly lossy) video stream 44 via the video rendering system 34, and the reconstructed video stream will be stored in the storage 38 for possible later lossless or substantially lossless playback of the reconstructed video stream. If the real-time video stream 44 is not missing any packets, then the real-time video stream 44 can be immediately rendered via the video rendering system 34.