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MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER
MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER is a Windows Media Integration Layer (MIL) HRESULT. It indicates a temporary shortage or transition in redirection-surface availability rather than a permanently invalid request.
What to check for MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER
- Retry after a bounded delay or after the compositor signals that the target is ready again.
- Check for transient resize, visibility, device-reset, or memory-pressure conditions.
- Use backoff and cancellation so repeated retries do not consume the UI or composition thread.
Microsoft documentation about WPF hardware-accelerated rendering
Diagnostic interpretation of MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER
MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER has the HRESULT value 0x88980095. AllStat records the condition as “No redirection surface was available. Caller should retry the call.”. For MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER, 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_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER
- Record the exact COM method or Windows API, its input object, the calling thread, and the full 0x88980095 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_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER or the milerr / redirection / surface / retry / later operation.
- Reproduce MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER with the smallest valid input and note whether the result changes with identity, architecture, service state, or target object.
Retry and recovery for MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER
Retry MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “No redirection surface was available. Caller should retry the call.” has changed. For MILERR_NO_REDIRECTION_SURFACE_RETRY_LATER, 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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