A method is provided that includes receiving a video timing pulse, determining, in response to receiving the video timing pulse, a video engine is busy processing a previous frame, and storing settings for a current frame in a pending queue in response to determining the video engine is busy processing the previous frame. The method further includes configuring the video engine with the settings for the current frame from the pending queue after the video engine has completed processing of the previous frame, and processing, using the configured video engine, the current frame.