Windows 10: Webcam video encoding types not available after Win 10 Anniv Update

I offer this in the hope that it will help get the issue some attention.

Background

I use webcams for video conferencing and streaming production. I have a large collection of webcams of all sorts, along with various software applications that allows explicit control of the cameras.

Camera I have on-hand: Logitech C920, C930e, BCC950, CC3000e, Aver VC520

Applications I use: vMix, Wirecast, Open Broadcaster Studio, SparkoCam

Most webcams are USB 2.0 connected and only support delivery of uncompressed video frames (I420, YUY2 or RGB encoded) to the client application. These two facts limit them to 720p30.

Some webcams (including all those listed above) support MJPEG and/or H264 encoding. That allows them to achieve 1080p30 if the client app is capable of setting the camera up to deliver the compressed stream. It also makes it a lot easier to use multiple webcams on the same computer without fighting USB bandwidth headaches.

The Problem

On a windows 10 system without the anniversary update installed all of the apps I have can put these various cameras into MJPEG or H264 mode and successfully achieve 1080p30.

On a similar system that has been updated with the anniversary update the compressed encoding types are not available to the applications. Only uncompressed encodings are offered. Thus 1080p30 cannot be achieved.

If I compare device drivers between the systems I find that they are identical. Same source, date, version.

I think that they have broken something in their basic UVC implementation. MJPEG encoding is an aspect of UVC 1.1, H264 was in UVC 1.5.

I reported this to Microsoft. They issued me a ticket number and referred me to some utterly worthless documents regarding repairing access to webcam that was not working at all.

Reverting to pre-anniversary update restores the missing functionality.

I've documented this here: Windows 10 Anniversary Update Breaks USB Camera Functionality Graves On SOHO Technology

It's also been reported in support forums for vMix, Wirecast and OBS.

Michael

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Camera isn't working after windows update from win 8.1 to win 10 .

I have Samsung laptop model NP355V5C-SO5IN . After updating it from win 8.1 to win 10 my camera stopped working.

Error code : 0xA00F4244<NoCamerasAreAttached>

Also in Device Manager I could not find any driver setting for webcam not even under Sound, video and game controllers...

Can't find this :

[

Select the Start button, type Device Manager,
and then select Device Manager from the search results.

Find your webcam under Imaging devices or Sound, video and game controllers.
]

 

It now seems that Microsoft deliberately broke access to compressed stream from webcams.

MJPG encoded media type is not available for USB/UVC web-cameras after Windows 10 version 1607 (OS Build 14393.10 anniversary)) update