Comparing Multimedia Device Drivers with Windows Device DriversThe MicrosoftÒ WindowsÔ Device Development Kit (DDK) lets you enrich Windows with audio, MCI, and joystick capabilities by integrating drivers for these multimedia devices into the environment. The audio, MCI, and joystick interfaces available through Windows extend the environment by offering a standard set of devices and capabilities. By developing multimedia device drivers, you can customize and extend the system environment to include your specific devices.
This chapter describes several aspects of developing multimedia device drivers:
Comparing Multimedia Device Drivers with Windows Device Drivers
System Requirements
Contents of this guide
The software support supplied in the DDK for multimedia devices includes:
A collection of device drivers written for multimedia devices in both source and run-time forms
A collection of applications for testing multimedia device drivers
Header files defining the messages, data structures, and functions used by multimedia device drivers
Documentation describing the key features of the multimedia device drivers
With the Windows DDK, you have the information and source-code samples needed to enrich Windows with new multimedia devices.