diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst
index eaab0c48e7..81da53baa7 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/options.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst
@@ -430,12 +430,12 @@ Video
     Do not sleep when outputting video frames. Useful for benchmarks when used
     with ``--no-audio.``
 
-``--framedrop=<no|yes|hard>``
+``--framedrop=<no|yes>``
     Skip displaying some frames to maintain A/V sync on slow systems. Video
     filters are not applied to such frames. For B-frames even decoding is
-    skipped completely. May produce unwatchably choppy output. With ``hard``,
-    decoding and output of any frame can be skipped, and will lead to an even
-    worse playback experience.
+    skipped completely. May produce unwatchably choppy output.
+
+    The ``--vd-lavc-framedrop`` option controls what frames to drop.
 
     .. note::
 
@@ -705,6 +705,10 @@ Video
     Skips decoding of frames completely. Big speedup, but jerky motion and
     sometimes bad artifacts (see skiploopfilter for available skip values).
 
+``--vd-lavc-framedrop=<skipvalue>``
+    Set framedropping mode used with ``--framedrop`` (see skiploopfilter for
+    available skip values).
+
 ``--vd-lavc-threads=<0-16>``
     Number of threads to use for decoding. Whether threading is actually
     supported depends on codec. 0 means autodetect number of cores on the
diff --git a/options/options.c b/options/options.c
index ff817bdc1f..b5578218d3 100644
--- a/options/options.c
+++ b/options/options.c
@@ -457,8 +457,7 @@ const m_option_t mp_opts[] = {
 
     OPT_CHOICE("framedrop", frame_dropping, 0,
                ({"no", 0},
-                {"yes", 1},
-                {"hard", 2})),
+                {"yes", 1})),
 
     OPT_FLAG("untimed", untimed, M_OPT_FIXED),
 
diff --git a/player/video.c b/player/video.c
index 21101f501a..538008302c 100644
--- a/player/video.c
+++ b/player/video.c
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ static int decode_image(struct MPContext *mpctx)
     }
     bool hrseek = mpctx->hrseek_active && mpctx->video_status == STATUS_SYNCING;
     int framedrop_type = hrseek && mpctx->hrseek_framedrop ?
-                         1 : check_framedrop(mpctx, -1);
+                         2 : check_framedrop(mpctx, -1);
     d_video->waiting_decoded_mpi =
         video_decode(d_video, pkt, framedrop_type);
     bool had_packet = !!pkt;
diff --git a/video/decode/vd_lavc.c b/video/decode/vd_lavc.c
index 75f66ce1f1..de5c1eb672 100644
--- a/video/decode/vd_lavc.c
+++ b/video/decode/vd_lavc.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ struct vd_lavc_params {
     int skip_loop_filter;
     int skip_idct;
     int skip_frame;
+    int framedrop;
     int threads;
     int bitexact;
     int check_hw_profile;
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ const struct m_sub_options vd_lavc_conf = {
         OPT_DISCARD("skiploopfilter", skip_loop_filter, 0),
         OPT_DISCARD("skipidct", skip_idct, 0),
         OPT_DISCARD("skipframe", skip_frame, 0),
+        OPT_DISCARD("framedrop", framedrop, 0),
         OPT_INTRANGE("threads", threads, 0, 0, 16),
         OPT_FLAG("bitexact", bitexact, 0),
         OPT_FLAG("check-hw-profile", check_hw_profile, 0),
@@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ const struct m_sub_options vd_lavc_conf = {
         .skip_loop_filter = AVDISCARD_DEFAULT,
         .skip_idct = AVDISCARD_DEFAULT,
         .skip_frame = AVDISCARD_DEFAULT,
+        .framedrop = AVDISCARD_NONREF,
     },
 };
 
@@ -592,14 +595,16 @@ static int decode(struct dec_video *vd, struct demux_packet *packet,
     int ret;
     vd_ffmpeg_ctx *ctx = vd->priv;
     AVCodecContext *avctx = ctx->avctx;
+    struct vd_lavc_params *lavc_param = ctx->opts->vd_lavc_params;
     AVPacket pkt;
 
-    if (flags & 2)
-        avctx->skip_frame = AVDISCARD_ALL;
-    else if (flags & 1)
-        avctx->skip_frame = AVDISCARD_NONREF;
-    else
+    if (flags) {
+        // hr-seek framedrop vs. normal framedrop
+        avctx->skip_frame = flags == 2 ? AVDISCARD_NONREF : lavc_param->framedrop;
+    } else {
+        // normal playback
         avctx->skip_frame = ctx->skip_frame;
+    }
 
     mp_set_av_packet(&pkt, packet, NULL);