What does HRESULT 0x88980004 (MILERR_SCANNER_FAILED) mean?

 
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MILERR_WIN32ERROR MILERR_SCREENACCESSDENIED

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

This result has the HRESULT value 0x88980004. AllStat records the condition as “it”.

Evidence to capture

  • Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions this result or the milerr / scanner operation.
  • compare the failing machine with a working one at the same configuration boundary: component version, policy, registration, identity, and target resource.

Retry and recovery

Retry this result only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “it” has changed.


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