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14Aug/06

Helpful error message

Note to the Media Center team:

"AUDIO ERROR Exception from HRESULT: 0xC00D1191 (C00D1191)"

is not a helpful error message.

Error Message

I know what HRESULTs and Exceptions are, but I still have no idea what this error message is trying to tell me.

I am reminded of Joel Spolsky's rant about unhandled exceptions.  I guess it's better to say "An unknown error happened!" than do nothing at all, but it's still pretty useless.  Somebody needs more testers..

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  1. I don’t know, the part in parenthesis is pretty helpful. :)

    Given the lack on info on that error value, its a good bet its a 3rd party error: codec or sound driver, maybe? Its still pretty useless. I wonder what the internal exception is… ;)

  2. It’s Windows, what do you expect? ;)

  3. You guys are right – it could very well be a 3rd party error. And I should be glad that it’s not crashing the machine instead :)

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