Optimizing Video and Animation
Windows 95 has certainly given a boost to digital video. The 32-bit architecture of Windows 95 helps streamline video playback and eliminate pesky resource problems. Better yet, Windows 95 puts video capability directly into the operating system, which means that virtually anyone who has Windows 95 is able to work with AVI files.
At the core of Windows-based video is the Media Control Interface, or MCI. MCI is an architecture that gives programs a standard, script-based interface to Windows multimedia resources, such as the Media Player, video playback windows, and audio controls. In addition, MCI enables programmatic control of video and audio so that development tools like Visual Basic, or even application macro ...
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