Hi Mike,

I've not been using windows for years now, but of what I remember about it, you should try something like that:

ctypes.windll.winmm.mciSendString

Hope this helps

Francois


Le 15/04/2014 04:44, Michael Mossey a écrit :

Asking a question here about Windows multimedia handling with Python ctypes, hoping the abundance of audio guys here will know the answer. I don't know much about the Windows API so something that should be very simple is not coming easily for me--web searches aren't revealing the answer.

My goal is to use MCI with Python ctypes, and basically I need to know where calls like mciSendString are located.

I can do something like

from ctypes import *
print(windll.mciSendString)
Attribute Error: function 'mciSendString' not found

print(windll.WinMM.mciSendString)
Attribute Error: function 'mciSendString' not found

etc-- in other words, I can't find mciSendString.

Mike

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That part of the string, "winmm" seems to be case-insensitive. It accepts WinMM, WINMM, etc without saying it can't find the module, but it doesn't find mciSendString in any case.

Oh, I'm on Windows 7 64-bit if that makes any difference.

Mike

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 PM, PINOT Francois <fggpinot@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mike,

I've not been using windows for years now, but of what I remember about it, you should try something like that:

ctypes.windll.winmm.mciSendString

Hope this helps

Francois


Le 15/04/2014 04:44, Michael Mossey a écrit :

Asking a question here about Windows multimedia handling with Python ctypes, hoping the abundance of audio guys here will know the answer. I don't know much about the Windows API so something that should be very simple is not coming easily for me--web searches aren't revealing the answer.

My goal is to use MCI with Python ctypes, and basically I need to know where calls like mciSendString are located.

I can do something like

from ctypes import *
print(windll.mciSendString)
Attribute Error: function 'mciSendString' not found

print(windll.WinMM.mciSendString)
Attribute Error: function 'mciSendString' not found

etc-- in other words, I can't find mciSendString.

Mike

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On 4/14/2014 10:39 PM, PINOT Francois wrote:

Hace you tried mciSendStringA? Anyway MCI is a rather old technology. Does it still exist on Winsows seven ? What about Direct X ?

Yes, that's what I was saying, I tried mciSendStringA and it worked.

All I want to do is play a sound file with the selection of start and end points. MCI seems to have this capability and it's not too complicated. Is Direct X simple for this task and can it be easily manipulated from the ctypes module?

Mike

As I told you this morning, I've not been working on windows for years (I'm actually on Linux). Maybe other persons on the list might be more qualified than me to answer your question.

Regards

Francois

2014-04-15 10:01 GMT+02:00 Michael Mossey <michaelmossey@gmail.com>:

On 4/14/2014 10:39 PM, PINOT Francois wrote:

Hace you tried mciSendStringA? Anyway MCI is a rather old technology. Does it still exist on Winsows seven ? What about Direct X ?

Yes, that's what I was saying, I tried mciSendStringA and it worked.

All I want to do is play a sound file with the selection of start and end points. MCI seems to have this capability and it's not too complicated. Is Direct X simple for this task and can it be easily manipulated from the ctypes module?

Mike