Media Control Interface: Difference between revisions

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MCI makes it very simple to write a program which can play a wide variety of media files and even to record sound by just passing commands as [[string (computer science)|string]]s. It uses relations described in Windows registries or in the [MCI] section of the file SYSTEM.INI. One advantage of this API is that MCI commands can be transmitted both from the programming language and from the scripting language (open script, lingo aso). Example of such commands are ''mciSendCommand'' or ''mciSendString''.

For a number of years, the MCI interface has been phased out in favor {{cnFact|date=January 2009}} of the [[DirectX]] APIs.

== MCI Devices ==

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