Relationship between Latency and Frame Rate

[Django_Untaken]

Hello. I am a beginner in audio/video. + Why do we use Sleep() function (or timer) when we are processing audio/video samples. + If we are rendering a video where our frame rate is 29 fps, then what value should be passed to the Sleep() function? + Is this what is known as Latency?

[CPallini]

• Sleep is used to pause programm execution. I don't know why are you using it while processing audio/video.
• Again, it depends on your actual implementation.
• No, that's not latency, see Wikipedia[^].

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[Django_Untaken]

I may have wrongly used the term processing. I am actually displaying the video frames (frame rate = 29.97 fps) onto a dialog. Now when I didn't use Sleep(), the 18 second video completed in just 4-5 seconds. But after putting Sleep(25), it almost runs normally. What does this mean to you?

[Rage]

Can you post your code ? You have to time your rendering, which is what you are doing in an awkward way with the Sleep instruction. If your target rate is 30 fps, you have to exactly wait 33ms between displaying each frame (which is obtained more or less with your Sleep(25)), but you don't use the Sleep instruction for that !

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[jeron1]

This[^] might be an interesting read regarding Sleep(). I agree with Rage that Sleep() is not the best choice here, possibly waitable timers or SetTimer()?