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NS_E_WMP_INVALID_MAX_VAL
What this HRESULT means
The symbolic result NS_E_WMP_INVALID_MAX_VAL narrows 0xC00D1009 to the invalid max val condition: a control declares Max below its Min value. Keep the invalid max val boundary visible when a later dialog reduces it to a general media error.
An additional test is to record control ID and parsed Min/Max values before defaults or script changes; that evidence is more useful than reinstalling the Player or changing several unrelated settings at once.
State worth preserving
Capture state before Player cleanup:
- What to verify: record control ID and parsed Min/Max values before defaults or script changes.
- Artifact: control type, object ID and parent/child relation.
- State: resource path, decoded dimensions and transparency/mapping attributes.
- Object identity: event name, first handler and any duplicate handler declaration.
- Underlying evidence: skin archive path, member list and selected. Wms definition.
- Correlation: THEME/version declaration and currentViewID.
Reproduce without destroying evidence
- Preserve
0xC00D1009, the ErrorItem context and the object instance involved in the failing operation. - Confirm the failure directly: record control ID and parsed Min/Max values before defaults or script changes.
- After you set a coherent range with Max greater than or equal to Min, recreate the owning WMP object and verify that the corrected generation completes.
What succeeds before this failure
Two rules frame this diagnosis. First, a skin package combines an XML definition with image and script resources; archive validity, schema validity and runtime object construction are separate checkpoints. Control properties such as image dimensions, minimum/maximum values and child-element support are evaluated after basic XML parsing succeeds.
Representative case: A slider range is reversed during localization or script initialization.
Related HRESULTs with different meanings
| Result | Different condition |
|---|---|
NS_E_WMP_INVALID_MIN_VAL | A control declares Min above its Max value in Windows Media Player |
NS_E_WMP_CS_JPGPOSITIONIMAGE | The skin engine rejects the Player cs jpgpositionimage property, object or package state |
NS_E_WMP_RBC_JPGMAPPINGIMAGE | The skin engine rejects the Player rbc jpgmappingimage property, object or package state |
Recovery at the right layer
Change the responsible precondition rather than masking the symptom: set a coherent range with Max greater than or equal to Min.
- Avoid renaming arbitrary XML to. Wms or repacking a skin without preserving its relative resource paths; it can destroy the artifact or state needed to explain this result.
- Avoid editing several controls at once before identifying the first schema or construction failure; that can replace the original HRESULT with a secondary failure from another layer.
How to know the repair is real
Keep one fixture that reproduces 0xC00D1009 and one corrected fixture that changes only the identified precondition.
Technical references
- Windows Media Player skins — API or format context.
- Skin definition file structure — documentation for this result.
- Skin definition XML structure — normative or platform material relevant to this result.
- Skin files and package contents
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