The method is characterized in that it comprises: a step of reducing the binary train (2) consisting in deleting one or more video packets from the binary train so as to provide a reduced binary train, a step of implementing an error masking algorithm on the reduced binary train (3) so as to calculate a corrected degraded local decoded image which is the image reconstructed on the basis of the reduced binary train and of the masking algorithm, a step of validation (4) for validating or not the reduction in the binary train as a function of the quality of the corrected degraded local decoded image, a step of selection (2) of the reduced binary train or of the binary train, depending on whether or not there is validation.