Hasย your webcam stopped working after updating toย Windows 10 Anniversary Update? If yes, then it’s because Microsoft internationally killed in the update. The update, which was first available on August 2nd, broke millions of webcamsย as reported byย Microsoft-focused blog Thurrott.com.
According to the blog, the reason millions of webcam stopped working after the update is due to Microsoft’s deprecation ofย MJPEG or H264 encoded streams in the update. What this means is that any webcam that encodes streams using any of those two formats will no longer work. According to Thurott’s writerย Brad Sams, the only supported formatย for webcam video stream supported in theย Windows 10 Anniversary Update isย YUY2 encoding.
So why did Microsoft internationally killed MJPEG andย H264 video streaming? Microsoft’s made the move of eliminating those two formats because of their poor performance caused by a new method that applications use to access USB webcams in Windows 10. Apparently, Microsoft made this decision without realizing that it would affect millions of users.
We will not see a fix until a September update release, confirmedย Mike M, a Camera engineer for Microsoft. As of now, you can fix the issue byย making some changes to the registry.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Media Foundation\Platform, add DWORD "EnableFrameServerMode" and set to 0. #webcamgate
— Rafael Rivera (@WithinRafael) August 19, 2016