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Changing the Current Position

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[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer.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.]

To change the current position in a device element, use the MCI_SEEK command message along with the MCI_TO flag and the MCI_SEEK_PARMS structure. If you use the dwTo member to specify a seek position with MCI_SEEK, you should query the time format and set it, if necessary.

In addition to specifying a position with the dwTo member, you can specify the MCI_SEEK_TO_START or MCI_SEEK_TO_END flags for the dwParam1 parameter of the mciSendCommand function to find the starting and ending positions of the device element. If you use one of these flags, don't specify the MCI_TO flag.