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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
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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