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Webcams with MJPEG or H.264 encoding will not work since Windows 10 Anniversary Update

The 10th Anniversary for Windows Update, which is now available for a few weeks, the necessary new features brought with it. In addition, Microsoft has tinkered under the hood of the operating system, for example to add new ways to provide simultaneous access to the same applications webcams.

MJPEG and H.264 encodings would be appropriate for performance issues may worry what Microsoft has decide to remove support… See More

for these codecs and instead allow only YUY2 encryption. Webcams of millions of people who use here, so do not reflect possible since the update through. Funnily enough work including copies as the popular Logitech C920 no longer able to, while its own H.264 encoder on board to properly relieve the processor.

Presumably due to lack of thorough testing, there is a bug crept in at the Anniversary Update: When USB webcams MJPEG or H.264 try to use that machine crashes. This problem, incidentally affects both consumer and professional markets, and is more acidic because users only 10 days gain time to reverse the Windows update. Many will already so attached to the Anniversary Update.

Microsoft has already announced that there is to be a working solution, yet the planning state in September.

>> Right now we're investigating the best way to address the behavior that's causing problems thesis. Once we have that, MJPEG and H.264 will no longer be filtered out, so your applications shouldering continued to work as before without any changes. At the moment we have a prototype of the MJPEG update being tested, and once we validate it works well, we'll look to publishing it out to customers who have already updated to the Anniversary Update, through our servicing channels.

[...] The decoded formats will continued to be offered, and as time passes, we Hope that application developers will adopt thesis where possible, since we still believe They bring benefits in the new camera landscape. That being Said, we've learned a lot from this launch and will be making improvements based on thesis learnings for the future, and we again would like to apologize for the confusion this May have created.

Logitech G , Angel Munoz , Mat Drummond , #Windows10 , #problems

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Erwin Klein Haneveld
 

the screw me over as well even Hardware build in to encode H264 does not work with windows 10!

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João Pedro Figueiredo
 

Man why does Microsoft always have to make things hard? It like they love screwing us over and over again  

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Yannick Bourret
"CrossNeon" —  

I thought it was an issue only in Skype, not the whole W10 experience.

My current webcam ~10 yrs old supports YUY2, but it's also a M$ webcam.

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Mark Krijgsman
"Tibbletoad" —  

lets see if my cam still works than  

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Angel Munoz
"Prometheus" —  

I use Windows 7.

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