How To Fix Camera Being Used By Another App On Windows 10 

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nope none of these worked unfortunately for me....

i did all of these things but I am still getting a 'camera being used by another app' from RU-vid when I try to go live.

I ran into this issue as I was trying to do a Livestream to RU-vid from OBS. I was mistakenly trying to start the broadcast from RU-vid after setting up the broadcast in OBS. I set the broadcast up in OBS then ALT/TAB to YT and tried to initiate a livestream but it said "Camera in use by another application". Got me here which helped get me on the right road. Basically, one can initiate a YT Livestream totally from OBS which I did and avoided the error. The error was mine and was indeed "another application using the camera". Thanks for the upload, you never know how far down the road it might help someone.

This did not work. Trying to go live with RU-vid and I get that error message. I've tried alot of things. including uninstalling zoom. checking the processes in task manager. updating camera drivers. agh help! I still get the message!

The video is very good and help me solve my problem

Hello, unfortunately this didn't solve my problem. Your advice was well constructed and I was easily able to follow along and I thank you for that. However it is till not working. This is the third or fourth resource I've turned to to help fix my problem and none of them have worked. Thank you anyways. 😀

My problem solved ❤thank you.

I tried these to my laptop but everytime I switch to USB camera, the issue still persists, but the built in camera was fine tho'

Thank you So much...My issue was resolved with the solution of firewall defender setting...appreciate your work...love from 🇮🇳 India...Jai Hind...Jai Bharat...Jai Shree Ram❤️

Found the problem about halfway through. Good video, well presented. Many thanks!

didnt work for me zoom is telling me my camera is still in use by another app

this out of all the stuff i watched actually helped lmao so thank you.

thanks mate

Good job

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I tried all these steps but my issue isn't resolved. Camera is working for all applications but my issue is with Whatsapp Video call. It isn't working when I make or receive video calls. It shows the same error " Your camera is unavailable or used by some other application. "

still my camera is not working

Thank you so much. I solved my problem ❤

What if i want to use my camera on 2 applications at once?

This didn't work at all!!!

no

This is really amazing

Found the problem, turns out i just had to turn on one camera on the privacy settings!!

All I had To Do Is Check If The "Windows Camera Frame Server" service is enabled.