0003471: HRESULT return codes from unmanaged methods are possibly being wrongly interpreted (1 Viewer)

[MediaPortal-Bot]

We need to check calls to unmanaged methods in both TVServer and MediaPortal to make sure that the return HRESULT is correctly interpreted for that function.<br /> <br /> Some methods are only checking for S_OK (0x0) and throwing an error for anything else. For example, S_FALSE (0x1) is an alternative success code and is returned by Terratec drivers when trying to tune to a transponder that is already tuned. <br /> <br /> Technically any positive HRESULT is a success code (with a possible warning code attached). Each method really needs to be checked against relavent specifications to make sure that the return code is handled correctly (especially calls that are driver specific).

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