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Microsoft released the Anniversary Update for Windows 10, it brought with it new features and also broke webcams for millions of consumers.

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.

There are new scenarios for applications to be able to access the webcam and the MJPEG or H264 encoding processes could have resulted in duplication of encoding the stream (poor performance).

Because of this change, Microsoft tried to defend but then realized the scale of the impact this change, means that when a webcam tries to use MJPEG or H264, the device will suspend. If you use Skype and your webcam freezes after a minute.

Millions of people have been inconvenienced by the bug. Some companies said customers who used webcams for internet banking had complained because they could no longer verify transactions.

The update ends support for two widely used encoding systems so it became possible for more than one application to use video as it is being shot. Prior to the update Windows 10 only allowed one application access to a stream.

Mike M, an engineer on the Windows Camera team has been commenting in the support thread where the complaints are stacking up and says that a fix is in the pipeline for hopefully a September release. The bad news is, there is not a temporary fix to hold everyone over until the patch is released