What does HRESULT 0xC00D1B93 (NS_E_DRM_PASSWORD_TOO_LONG) mean?

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The specified password is too long. Type a password with fewer than 8 characters.%0

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NS_E_DRM_PASSWORD_TOO_LONG

Why the symbolic result matters

When NS_E_DRM_PASSWORD_TOO_LONG is returned, the system has already established that the supplied legacy DRM profile password exceeds the accepted field length. Within Windows Media Encoder DRM profiles, this result is raised while processing encoder-session configuration that selects a stored DRM profile and uses its identifier, policy and secret while packaging live or file-based protected output.

Use the failing operation itself to measure the encoded password length passed to the profile API.

Objects involved

The object graph behind this result includes encoding session, DRM profile identifier, profile store, password, selected audience/output and profile-count limit. A trace should retain the profile ID supplied to the session, profile enumeration result, profile-store location, password length and the point at which the encoder binds the profile.

The producing layer has not made a claim about every media operation; it has only established that the supplied legacy DRM profile password exceeds the accepted field length.

First failure versus cleanup

The supplied legacy DRM profile password exceeds the accepted field length.

Cause and successor state

A useful failure model links cause and recovery: the supplied legacy DRM profile password exceeds the accepted field length. Verify that model when you measure the encoded password length passed to the profile API, then make the smallest change needed to use a password within the documented legacy limit and update dependent configuration securely. Record the first lower-layer status beside it because wrapper HRESULTs can otherwise conceal the producing component.

What separates this code

Field	Value
Direct check	measure the encoded password length passed to the profile API

Verification sequence

Preserve it and 0xC00D1B93 before cleanup, fallback or another media item changes the context.
Compare the failure with a known-good case that changes only the property named by this condition: the supplied legacy DRM profile password exceeds the accepted field length.
Apply the targeted fix: use a password within the documented legacy limit and update dependent configuration securely.
Associate it with its current Windows Media Encoder DRM profiles object and the requested action.
Run the direct check: measure the encoded password length passed to the profile API.

Adjacent HRESULTs

Result	Why it points elsewhere
`NS_E_DRM_PROFILE_NOT_SET`	the encoder session reached protected output without a DRM profile bound to it
`NS_E_DUPLICATE_DRMPROFILE`	a new encoder DRM profile reuses an identifier already present in the profile store
`NS_E_DRMPROFILE_NOTFOUND`	the encoder cannot resolve the requested DRM profile identifier

Safe recovery

Do not recreate every encoder profile at once; preserve the original profile ID and compare one known-good profile so a lookup problem is not confused with a policy or password problem.

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