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MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED
MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED is a Windows Media Integration Layer (MIL) HRESULT. It indicates that MIL could not scan or validate the data stream required for the requested graphics operation.
What to check for MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED
- Validate the input data, resource lifetime, and any serialized or marshalled graphics commands.
- Check whether the failure follows corrupted state, invalid geometry, or an earlier rendering exception.
- Reduce the request to a simple known-good drawing operation to isolate the problematic content.
Microsoft documentation about WPF hardware-accelerated rendering
Diagnostic interpretation of MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED
MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED has the HRESULT value 0x88980004. AllStat records the condition as “MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED”. For MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED, in practice, interpret that wording at the boundary owned by the Windows component or COM interface that returned the HRESULT, rather than treating the value as a generic Windows message.
Evidence to capture for MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED
- Record the exact COM method or Windows API, its input object, the calling thread, and the full 0x88980004 value before a wrapper converts it to an exception or Boolean result.
- Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED or the milerr / scanner operation.
- For MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED, compare the failing machine with a working one at the same configuration boundary: component version, policy, registration, identity, and target resource.
Retry and recovery for MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED
Retry MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED” has changed. For MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED, configuration, policy, format, and authorization failures normally require correction first; an immediate loop can hide the original call site and add secondary errors.
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