Chapter 6 The Multimedia Movie Player

The Movie Player provides the ability to play animation files in Windows with Multimedia. These animation files, called Multimedia Movie Files, can be created on the Macintosh using MacroMind Director, a multimedia authoring tool. Movie files can contain animation data, audio data, Media Control Interface (MCI) script commands, and user-defined script commands.

This chapter covers the following topics:

The Movie Player and its capabilities and architecture

The different ways to play movies

Using the MCI Multimedia Movie Driver