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MILERR_TERMINATED
MILERR_TERMINATED is a Windows Media Integration Layer (MIL) HRESULT. It indicates that the rendering operation ended because the compositor, application, device, or owning object was being shut down.
What to check for MILERR_TERMINATED
- Check application shutdown, window destruction, device-loss, and cancellation paths around the failed call.
- Stop issuing new rendering work after teardown begins and release resources in documented order.
- Recreate the rendering context only after the owning application or device state has been restored.
Microsoft documentation about WPF hardware-accelerated rendering
Diagnostic interpretation of MILERR_TERMINATED
MILERR_TERMINATED has the HRESULT value 0x88980009. AllStat records the condition as “MILERR_TERMINATED”. For MILERR_TERMINATED, 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_TERMINATED
- Record the exact COM method or Windows API, its input object, the calling thread, and the full 0x88980009 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_TERMINATED or the milerr / terminated operation.
- Preserve the first failure in the call chain; a later HRESULT can describe cleanup rather than the original milerr / terminated condition.
Retry and recovery for MILERR_TERMINATED
Retry MILERR_TERMINATED only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “MILERR_TERMINATED” has changed. For MILERR_TERMINATED, 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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