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 <tt>system.ini</tt>. 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 <tt>mciSendCommand</tt> or <tt>mciSendString</tt>.

{{As of | 2011 | alt = ForAfter a number ofmany years}}, the MCI interface has been phased out in favor {{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} of the [[DirectX]] APIs first released in 1995.

== MCI Devices ==