Is this perhaps the same issue being discussed here:
https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-caching-images-how-to-stop-it/7112
I've an ugly solution where I send a gray frame at the start and a black frame at the end so stale images aren't mistaken for "live" images on the UI webpage.
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