+/** Prepare writing data to the server (for playback streams). This
+ * function may be used to optimize the number of memory copies when
+ * doing playback ("zero-copy"). It is recommended to call this
+ * function before each call to pa_stream_write(). Pass in the address
+ * to a pointer and an address of the number of bytes you want to
+ * write. On return the two values will contain a pointer where you
+ * can place the data to write and the maximum number of bytes you can
+ * write. On return *nbytes can be smaller or have the same value as
+ * you passed in. You need to be able to handle both cases. Accessing
+ * memory beyond the returned *nbytes value is invalid. Acessing the
+ * memory returned after the following pa_stream_write() or
+ * pa_stream_cancel_write() is invalid. On invocation only *nbytes
+ * needs to be initialized, on return both *data and *nbytes will be
+ * valid. If you place (size_t) -1 in *nbytes on invocation the memory
+ * size will be chosen automatically (which is recommended to
+ * do). After placing your data in the memory area returned call
+ * pa_stream_write() with data set to an address within this memory
+ * area and an nbytes value that is smaller or equal to what was
+ * returned by this function to actually execute the write. An
+ * invocation of pa_stream_write() should follow "quickly" on
+ * pa_stream_begin_write(). It is not recommended letting an unbounded
+ * amount of time pass after calling pa_stream_begin_write() and
+ * before calling pa_stream_write(). If you want to cancel a
+ * previously called pa_stream_begin_write() without calling
+ * pa_stream_write() use pa_stream_cancel_write(). Calling
+ * pa_stream_begin_write() twice without calling pa_stream_write() or
+ * pa_stream_cancel_write() in between will return exactly the same
+ * pointer/nbytes values.\since 0.9.16 */
+int pa_stream_begin_write(
+ pa_stream *p,
+ void **data,
+ size_t *nbytes);
+
+/** Reverses the effect of pa_stream_begin_write() dropping all data
+ * that has already been placed in the memory area returned by
+ * pa_stream_begin_write(). Only valid to call if
+ * pa_stream_begin_write() was called before and neither
+ * pa_stream_cancel_write() nor pa_stream_write() have been called
+ * yet. Accessing the memory previously returned by
+ * pa_stream_begin_write() after this call is invalid. Any further
+ * explicit freeing of the memory area is not necessary. \since
+ * 0.9.16 */
+int pa_stream_cancel_write(
+ pa_stream *p);
+
+/** Write some data to the server (for playback streams), if free_cb
+ * is non-NULL this routine is called when all data has been written
+ * out and an internal reference to the specified data is kept, the
+ * data is not copied. If NULL, the data is copied into an internal
+ * buffer. The client may freely seek around in the output buffer. For