In “the Anniversary” upgrade the operating system, the developers have disabled the codecs MJPEG and H. 264.
The upgrade to Windows 10 Anniversary Update did not go as smoothly as the developers had hoped. After installing the update, some users have complained about the computer freezes, and now appeared information about the “failure” of Webcams. The problem affected users, whose cameras use codecs codecs MJPEG and H. 264. In the Anniversary Update, Microsoft has disabled them, preferring NV12 and YUY2, which led to the fact that millions of cameras around the world stopped working.
In the Anniversary Update function has been added when multiple applications have access to a webcam, however, is forbidden processes can duplicate the stream encoding, slowing it down. The limitation of the compression formats was to prevent the simultaneous activation of several processes. Apparently, Microsoft had underestimated the amount of people who have cameras use codecs MJPEG and H. 264. The company promises that will correct the problem with MJPEG in September, but in the case of H. 264 on the solution will take more time.
Earlier it was reported that Windows 10 was installed on 14 million devices during the first day after the start of sales. The operating system is available for users of Windows 7 and 8 as a free update. In order to reduce the load on the system, caused by the excitement around the operating system, Microsoft Windows 10 downloads to the user’s computer waves.
For comparison, Windows 8 has been installed on 40 million devices in the first month after the announcement and to reach the mark of 100 million devices, it took her four months. However, after the official release of the operating system began to receive information about what Windows 10 transmits identification data to Microsoft even if the user has disabled Bing search and assistant Cortanа and activated the privacy settings of the software.
