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WindowsMCIMBS class
Type | Topic | Plugin | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | iOS | Targets |
class | Audio | MBS Audio Plugin | ❌ No | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ❌ No | All |
Without QuickTime you can't play a movie in Windows with the Movieplayer control. This class allows you to play movies.
Possible devices:
vcr (ME, 98)
videodisc (ME, 98)
overlay
cdaudio (2000, ME, 98)
dat
scanner
animation
digitalvideo
waveaudio (2000, ME, 98)
sequencer (2000, ME, 98)
avivideo (2000, ME, 98)
mpegvideo (2000, ME, 98)
(I added on which OS I find the devices on my installation.)
On Windows 2000 we have this connection between devices and file extensions:
vcr: | |
videodisc: | |
overlay: | |
cdaudio: | cda. |
dat: | |
scanner: | |
animation: | |
digitalvideo: | |
waveaudio: | wav. |
sequencer: | mdi, midi, rmi. |
avivideo: | avi. |
mpegvideo: | aif*, asx, asf, au, dat, ivf, m1v, m3z, mov, mp*, qt, snd, wax, wm, wma, wmv, wvx. |
You can find this list in the Registry on Windows 2000 at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Currentversion\MCI Extensions".
Possible states of a device:
not ready
stopped
playing
recording
seeking
paused
open
Possible time units:
milliseconds - Default
hms - Hour:Minute:Second
msf - Minute:Second:Frame
frames
smpte 24
smpte 25
smpte 30
smpte 30 drop
bytes
samples
tmsf - Track:Minute:Second:Frame -> use for CD
A list of all commands can be found on the Microsoft Website at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/multimed/mmcmdstr_85uz.asp
- 4 properties
- property Command as string
- property Errorcode as Integer
- property Errorstring as string
- property Result as string
- method Run
This class has no sub classes.
Some examples using this class:
- /Audio/WindowsMCI/cdaudio
- /Audio/WindowsMCI/DropMoviePlayer
- /Audio/WindowsMCI/List MCI Errormessages
- /Audio/WindowsMCI/movieplayer
The items on this page are in the following plugins: MBS Audio Plugin.
WindowsLocationMBS - WindowsMidiInputInfoMBS