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NS_E_NO_MEDIA_IN_AUDIENCE
Diagnostic meaning beyond the standard text
For NS_E_NO_MEDIA_IN_AUDIENCE (0xC00D1BAF), the actionable event is an audience contains neither audio nor video media inputs.
Why the session can reach this point
A Windows Media Encoder profile declares content types and one or more audiences. Each audience maps source indexes to audio, video, script or file streams and must remain structurally consistent with the other audiences in a multiple-bit-rate profile.
Individual fields may be syntactically valid while the complete profile is inconsistent across audiences or does not match the source group. One concrete way to reach the condition is that a profile editor leaves a placeholder audience with only metadata.
Decision path
- Record
0xC00D1BAF, the Encoder version and the exact API call or property access that returned it. - Export the current
.wmeor.prxconfiguration, then capture audience index, ContentType and audio/video stream counts. - Verify the profile, audience and stream topology precondition without changing the source, profile and output sink at the same time.
- Run one controlled comparison that changes only the identified precondition: add at least one audio or video stream or remove the empty audience.
Codes with similar symptoms but different owners
| Result | Why it differs |
|---|---|
NS_E_SMPTEMODE_MISMATCH | SMPTE timecode mode differs across audiences for the same source index |
NS_E_NO_AUDIENCES | profile validation finds no bitrate audience at all |
NS_E_NONSQUAREPIXELMODE_MISMATCH | non-square-pixel mode differs across audiences sharing a source index |
Safe recovery
Add at least one audio or video stream or remove the empty audience.
Do not repair a profile by deleting arbitrary audiences; export the .prx profile first and compare the same source index across every audience.
Discriminating evidence: Enumerate the audio, video, script and file streams attached to the failing audience. This result is reached when the audience has no usable media stream at all; a present stream with a bad bitrate or format belongs to a different profile failure.
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