On 3 April 2012 14:24, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > It's a record stream that records what's being played to a sink or > records the contents of some single playback stream. With record streams > in general, the latency tells how long ago the audio reached the sound > card input, but with monitoring streams it tells how long ago the sound > reached the sound card's *output*. With monitoring streams the latency > can be negative if your application gets the audio before it reaches the > sound card output. If there are monitoring streams, maybe the list describing the stream types should be amended... > No. That's what I had guessed. Thank you for your prompt answers..