Chapter 7 MCI Command Strings

There are two ways to communicate with the Media Control Interface: the command-message interface and the command-string interface. Chapter 4, “Message Overview,” and Chapter 5, “Message Directory” cover the command-message interface to MCI. This chapter covers the command-string interface to MCI.

It covers the following topics:

About MCI Commands

Creating and using MCI command strings

Using MCITEST to experiment with MCI command strings

Tables of MCI command strings for MCI devices