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+PortAudio Tutorial</h1></center>
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+<h2>
+Utility Functions</h2>
+
+<blockquote>Here are several more functions that are not critical, but
+may be handy when using PortAudio.
+<p>Pa_StreamActive() returns one when the stream in playing audio, zero
+when not playing, or a negative error number if the stream is invalid.
+The stream is active between calls to Pa_StartStream() and Pa_StopStream(),
+but may also become inactive if the callback returns a non-zero value.
+In the latter case, the stream is considered inactive after the last buffer
+has finished playing.
+<blockquote>
+<pre>PaError Pa_StreamActive( PortAudioStream *stream );</pre>
+</blockquote>
+Pa_StreamTime() returns the number of samples that have been generated.
+PaTimeStamp is a double precision number which is a convenient way to pass
+big numbers around even though we only need integers.
+<blockquote>
+<pre>PaTimestamp Pa_StreamTime( PortAudioStream *stream );</pre>
+</blockquote>
+The "CPU Load" is a fraction of total CPU time consumed by the stream's
+audio processing. A value of 0.5 would imply that PortAudio and the sound
+generating callback was consuming roughly 50% of the available CPU time.
+This function may be called from the callback function or the application.
+<blockquote>
+<pre>double Pa_GetCPULoad( PortAudioStream* stream );</pre>
+</blockquote>
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