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From: Michael Warner
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 17:01

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On Fri, 24 May 2002 17:01:40 -0400, Hugh W Stewart
<hughstewart@usa.net> wrote:

>I am a converted C programmer, struggling with multimedia.
>I am developing an application that includes audio and video clips.
>I use MCI functions.  My problem is that I want the clips to start as
>specified times, but since the data must be loaded from files, it takes
>time to get them started.
>My thought is to have the files loaded into memory, and play them from
>there.

I'm not very familiar with the MCI interface, but is it possible to
start and immediately pause the clips? If so, you could do this well
ahead of schedule, then unpause them at the desired moment.

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