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Bluetooth latency demo

Brent Butterworth

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Brent Butterworth demonstrates the latency differences between various Bluetooth audio codecs and their impact on lip sync.

A demo showing the effects of different Bluetooth codecs on audio/video sync and lip sync

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What people say. Recommended to demonstrate the real-world impact of audio latency and synchronization.

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On “MenuetOS now includes an ultra-low audio latency, below 1 milliseconds and in some cases, even below 0.1 milliseconds”

> if the latency were hundreds of ms it might desync audio and video There's a difference between latency and synchronization. - Latency: x happens but you don't see it until y - Desync: x is faster than y, so after a while you get an overflow, i.e. visual "hiccup" (repeated or skipped frame) or audio distortion > why would audio latency matter generally? Audio latency is important if you have to react to audio cues - blind speedruns are perhaps the most extreme example, but it also happens with first-person shooters (e.g. Apex). Apart from that large latency is just unpleasant because your brain has to do more work connecting audio events with visual cues.