The camera does not work with Windows 10 Anniversary? That’s normal … – Clubic

The last major update of featured operating system from Redmond seems to cause some problems for its users. The latest is a compatibility issue with number of webcams

There are new functionalities that Microsoft likes to speak about Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and then there are changes in the operated hood. sometimes for some obvious reasons. This is the case of a change in the management of video streams from the cameras. With Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft allows multiple applications to access the video stream from a webcam, especially to anticipate new Scenarios use (Hololens, etc). But to avoid that possibility too slow PCs because of possible proliferation of competing decoding operations, Microsoft has set up an arbitrary limitation. The publisher has actually banned the use of MJPEG and H.264 codecs, video formats for the NV12 and YUY2. One small detail that seems to have escaped Microsoft, this change renders inoperative a number of webcams.

So if your webcam is interrupted by Skype (especially) since upgrading to Windows 10 Anniversary Update, it’s probably because of this change. A change potentially affecting millions of users and seems to have completely escaped Microsoft and its partners (see about the intervention of a developer in Microsoft’s MSDN developer community).

Skype settings in Windows 10 Anniversary Update

in terms of Logitech, whose installed base is considerable webcam, users return to it Microsoft’s statements announcing a fix for the month of September. Patch seems only concern cam MJPG and not those using H.264 codec …

The American Paul Thurrott reported a hack of the registry that we do not have could test but could afford to wait by September: HKLM SOFTWARE WOW6432Node Microsoft Windows Media Foundation Platform, add a DWORD key named EnableFrameServerMode and set it to 0

. as for Microsoft, the company publicly declares to our colleagues from Engadget that Windows 10 is still the version of Windows with the highest customer satisfaction and support teams analyze reports of problems with attention. A statement useless that does not explain how Microsoft has not made such a change in its OS would transform crowd cam clipboard …

Changed on 08/20/2016 at 21:18