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See, 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 for
by striking 10y ago
See, 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.