Working with MCI Devices

[The feature associated with this page, MCI, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of MCI, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]

The following topics describe how to work with MCI devices and provide shortcuts you can use with MCI commands:

• Opening a Device
• Retrieving Information About a Device
• Obtaining MCI System Information
• Playing a Device
• Recording
• Stopping, Pausing, and Resuming a Device
• Closing a Device