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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-116227

Camera compatibility issues due to removal of DirectShow

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    • 6.5.2
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    • Windows

      The removal of the DirectShow backend in Qt6 caused a bunch of 3rdparty drivers and software to be incompatible with the Qt multimedia camera module.

      Examples of this are OBS or the PS-Eye driver.

      Users were able to use these as camera with Qt5, but now in Qt6 they simply don't show up in the QMediaDevices::videoInputs() list.

      While I'm sure that it's a good thing to remove deprecated backends in the long run, I don't think it was a wise decision to do it while it's still a common choice for 3rdparty software in the current Windows version.

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            johanseg Jøger Hansegård
            megamouse Patrick Waldner
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