A Media Control Interface (MCI) for controlling media devices.Windows with Multimedia consists of Windows 3.0 plus the Multimedia extensions. The Multimedia extensions enhance Windows 3.0 by providing the following services for multimedia applications:
A Media Control Interface (MCI) for controlling media devices.
Extensible string-based and message-based interfaces for communicating with MCI device drivers.
MCI device drivers for playing and recording waveform audio, playing MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) files, playing compact disc audio from a CD-ROM disc drive, and controlling Pioneer videodisc players.
Low-level API support for multimedia-related services.
Low-level support for playing and recording audio with waveform and MIDI audio devices.
Low-level support for getting input from analog joysticks, and for precision timer services.
Multimedia file I/O services providing buffered and unbuffered file I/O, and support for standard IBM/Microsoft Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) files. The services are extensible with custom I/O procedures that can be shared among applications.
Device drivers designed for multimedia applications.
Enhanced high-resolution video display drivers for Video 7 and Paradise VGA cards providing 256 colors, improved performance, and new features.
A high-resolution VGA video display driver that displays color bitmaps as gray-scale images. The driver supports 16 shades of gray.
A high-resolution VGA video display driver that allows the use of a custom 16-color palette as well as the standard palatte.
A low-resolution VGA video display driver that provides 320-by-200 resolution with 256 colors.
A device driver providing support for drawing to and manipulating in-memory DIBs with Windows GDI functions.
Control Panel applets that let users change display drivers, set up a screen saver, install multimedia device drivers, assign waveform sounds to system alerts, configure the MIDI Mapper, and calibrate joysticks.
A MIDI Mapper supporting standard MIDI patch services. This allows MIDI files to be authored independently of end-user MIDI synthesizer setups.