Microsoft Has Broken Millions Of Webcams With Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Found on Thurrott on Saturday, 20 August 2016
Microsoft made a significant change with the release of Windows 10 and support for webcams that is causing serious problems for not only consumers but also the enterprise. The problem is that after installing the update, Windows no longer allows USB webcams to use MJPEG or H264 encoded streams and is only allowing YUY2 encoding.
Because of this change, which Microsoft tried to defend but then realized the scale of the impact this change has caused, means that when a webcam tries to use MJPEG or H264, the device will freeze. If you use Skype and your webcam freezes after about a minute, this is the reason.
First they break the entire OS when you have a hybrid-storage, now MS breaks webcams. They seem to be completely away from reality when they think that blocking essential codecs is a smart decision.