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"It was important for us to enable concurrent camera access" -> tinfoil hat mode: cortana is secretly spying on you through the web cam. https://social.msdn.mi
by 0x0 10y ago
"It was important for us to enable concurrent camera access" -> tinfoil hat mode: cortana is secretly spying on you through the web cam.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/9d6a8704-764f-46df-a41c-8e9d84f7f0f3/mjpg-encoded-media-type-is-not-available-for-usbuvc-webcameras-after-windows-10-version-1607-os?forum=mediafoundationdevelopment#fc5c100a-c661-43cd-9540-bb4591e3d1fe https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-U...
- throwanem 10y agoFinally a compelling reason to upgrade.
- striking 10y agoSee, I'm okay with them adding concurrent camera access, because I still recall the days I was using Skype on XP and would get blue screens if anything else forgot to close the webcam. That's true though: why is it important for them?
- 0x0 10y agoAnd why not make it a new opt-in API for new applications? What it should have been: Run an old API app -> exclusive webcam access. Run new/updated API apps -> concurrent webcam access. To think, Microsoft used to be all about preserving backwards compatibility to the extreme.
- izacus 10y agoBecause history shows that developers don't update their apps and drivers if they're not forced to. As such this change would be pointless if a crappy team, like Skype :P, would refuse to update their API and would block concurrent access for all other apps.