Full Screen in YouTube

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My problem:

  • I can go to youtube.com on Firefox 3.5.6 OR Google Chrome 4.0.249.43
  • I can play videos on the web page (like normal)
  • If I click the full screen button next to the volume or HD button, the screen goes black, the video plays, but the video does not expand full screen.

So its a plays with a small video centered on the screen with a black background.

My specs:

  • Flash Player 10.0.42-34-14.1-i586 from multimedia:apps installed through YaST2
  • openSUSE 11.2
  • Nvidia GeForce 6800 XT
  • Nvidia driver (TwinView) - two monitors
  • Desktop effects enabled or disabled makes no difference

Any questions, please ask away. Its an annoying problem.

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Update: if I pop out the video into a new Window from youtube, Maximise it, I can pretty much achieve full screen playback.

But that’s a manual workaround, I would still like to know how to fix this problem.

I’m using this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1c8wCDOrk8) as an example.

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Is this in KDE4 or Gnome. I use KDE4 and all is normal. But that’s on 64bit.

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This is on KDE, 32bit

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Works fine for me

Try disabling desktop effects, does that help?

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Tried this, didn’t make any difference. I wonder if it’s my graphics driver.

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Possibly, is it suspect or exceedingly inadequate ?

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Oops
No it looks OK

You installed the driver? Yes

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Yep I’ve installed the driver from NVIDIA - openSUSE

“For all new NVIDIA cards (Geforce 6 and newer)”

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Ah I figured out what caused this, it’s because I have two monitors, setup as TwinView, if I disabled one monitor, I get full screen playback on YouTube. Hmm… I guess this is a bug.