MCI Reference
[The feature associated with this page, MCI, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of MCI, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]
This section lists the MCI functions, structures, messages, macros, commands, and command strings, which are documented under Multimedia Reference. These elements are grouped as follows.
Notifications
Getting Information
Sending Commands
Time Formats
- MCI_HMS_HOUR
- MCI_HMS_MINUTE
- MCI_HMS_SECOND
- MCI_MAKE_HMS
- MCI_MAKE_MSF
- MCI_MAKE_TMSF
- MCI_MSF_FRAME
- MCI_MSF_MINUTE
- MCI_MSF_SECOND
- MCI_TMSF_FRAME
- MCI_TMSF_MINUTE
- MCI_TMSF_SECOND
- MCI_TMSF_TRACK
Yield Procedures
Configuring a Device
- break
- configure
- escape
- index
- MCI_BREAK
- MCI_BREAK_PARMS
- MCI_CONFIGURE
- MCI_DGV_SET_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_SETAUDIO_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_SETVIDEO_PARMS
- MCI_ESCAPE
- MCI_INDEX
- MCI_SEQ_SET_PARMS
- MCI_SET
- MCI_SET_PARMS
- MCI_SETAUDIO
- MCI_SETTIMECODE
- MCI_SETTUNER
- MCI_SETVIDEO
- MCI_SPIN
- MCI_VCR_SET_PARMS
- MCI_VCR_SETAUDIO_PARMS
- MCI_VCR_SETTUNER_PARMS
- MCI_VCR_SETVIDEO_PARMS
- MCI_VD_ESCAPE_PARMS
- MCI_WAVE_SET_PARMS
- set
- setaudio
- settimecode
- settuner
- setvideo
- spin
Controlling Playback
- freeze
- load
- MCI_DGV_FREEZE_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_LOAD_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_PAUSE_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_PLAY_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_RESUME_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_STOP_PARMS
- MCI_FREEZE
- MCI_LOAD
- MCI_LOAD_PARMS
- MCI_OVLY_LOAD_PARMS
- MCI_PAUSE
- MCI_PLAY
- MCI_PLAY_PARMS
- MCI_RESUME
- MCI_STOP
- MCI_UNFREEZE
- MCI_VCR_PLAY_PARMS
- MCI_VD_PLAY_PARMS
- pause
- play
- resume
- stop
- unfreeze
Controlling the Position
- cue
- mark
- MCI_CUE
- MCI_DGV_CUE_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_SIGNAL_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_STEP_PARMS
- MCI_MARK
- MCI_SEEK
- MCI_SEEK_PARMS
- MCI_SIGNAL
- MCI_STEP
- MCI_VCR_CUE_PARMS
- MCI_VCR_SEEK_PARMS
- MCI_VCR_STEP_PARMS
- MCI_VD_STEP_PARMS
- seek
- signal
- step
Editing
- copy
- cut
- delete
- MCI_COPY
- MCI_CUT
- MCI_DELETE
- MCI_DGV_COPY_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_CUT_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_DELETE_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_PASTE_PARMS
- MCI_PASTE
- MCI_UNDO
- MCI_WAVE_DELETE_PARMS
- paste
- undo
Miscellaneous
Opening and Closing
- close
- MCI_CLOSE
- MCI_DGV_OPEN_PARMS
- MCI_OPEN
- MCI_OPEN_PARMS
- MCI_OVLY_OPEN_PARMS
- MCI_WAVE_OPEN_PARMS
- open
Realizing a Palette
Repainting a Frame
Retrieving Information
- capability
- info
- list
- MCI_DGV_INFO_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_LIST_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_STATUS_PARMS
- MCI_GETDEVCAPS
- MCI_GETDEVCAPS_PARMS
- MCI_INFO
- MCI_INFO_PARMS
- MCI_LIST
- MCI_STATUS
- MCI_STATUS_PARMS
- MCI_SYSINFO
- MCI_SYSINFO_PARMS
- MCI_VCR_LIST_PARMS
- MCI_VCR_STATUS_PARMS
- status
- sysinfo
Saving
- MCI_DGV_RECORD_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_SAVE_PARMS
- MCI_OVLY_SAVE_PARMS
- MCI_RECORD
- MCI_RECORD_PARMS
- MCI_SAVE
- MCI_SAVE_PARMS
- MCI_VCR_RECORD_PARMS
- record
- save
Video Control
- capture
- MCI_CAPTURE
- MCI_DGV_MONITOR_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_QUALITY_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_RESERVE_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_RESTORE_PARMS
- MCI_MONITOR
- MCI_QUALITY
- MCI_RESERVE
- MCI_RESTORE
- monitor
- quality
- reserve
- restore
Window or Display Rectangles
- MCI_DGV_PUT_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_RECT_PARMS
- MCI_DGV_WINDOW_PARMS
- MCI_OVLY_RECT_PARMS
- MCI_OVLY_WINDOW_PARMS
- MCI_PUT
- MCI_WHERE
- MCI_WINDOW
- put
- where
- window
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