[pulseaudio-discuss] Question about streams...

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi there..

According to the Pulse documentation, there are 3 types of streams:
http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/streams.html
    Playback streams - Data flows from the client to the server.
    Record streams - Data flows from the server to the client.
    Upload streams - Similar to playback streams, but the data is
stored in the sample cache. See Sample Cache for more information
about controlling the sample cache.

In the documentation for pa_stream_get_latency, one can read:
http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/stream_8h.html#aa521efcc16fe2abf0f8461462432ac16

"In case the stream is a monitoring stream the result can be negative,
i.e. the captured samples are not yet played. In this case *negative
is set to 1."

So... What is a monitoring stream in this context?

In a typical user application playing audio via pulse, (e.g. a
playback streams) can pa_stream_get_latency ever return a negative
latency ?

Thanks
JY