Youtube fullscreen bug with dual monitors

[Lucky75]

Bump. I've had problems since at least 9.04 with this. Any ideas on it? It's not just youtube, and different flash players seem to have different problems with the display, although youtube is generally the worst of them all.

[Lucky75]

bump

[vek]

I get this too. I think its youtube's fault. They're probably evaluating the full desktop size (3000x1024 or whatever) and then rendering to that, then shrinking it or something. So you end up with a small image in the middle of one monitor.

Youtube doesn't appear to have any way to report a bug, so bleh

[Rykes]

Just giving this thread a bumpty bump since I'm having the very same problem. Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT

[TheBuzzSaw]

I bypass this bug by fetching the fully buffered Flash video file from /tmp/ and just watching it in Totem, which enters fullscreen just fine in dual monitor setups.

[wizi]

Bump!!! I am having the same problem with youtube videos. If anyone know how to fix this, please show us.

[TheBuzzSaw]

Bump!!! I am having the same problem with youtube videos. If anyone know how to fix this, please show us.

I've given up on YouTube itself, but I have a powerful alternative. I just wait for the video to buffer all the way. Then, I go into the folder /tmp and grab the video file from there. It'll have some title like "Flashx9dhfg9h3". Just copy, paste, and rename it. Play it in your media player, and full screen mode works fine there. Flash is an abomination.

[livelite]

I'm one of those having this issue as well, however, there is a neat workaround you might want to try.

It works by replacing the flash player on YouTube with an embedded Ubuntu movie player.

To do this you'll need FireFox, and the Greasemonkey extension with the Youtube without Flash Auto script installed.


Once you do this, YouTube videos will play nicely in full screen, and might even handle those HD videos nicely if your pc had trouble viewing them with the flash player.

Enjoy

[guntu]

I have the same issue, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a HP Pavilion dv2000 with NVidia graphic card (can't remember the model) and using Twinview.

It pretty annoying but I thought it was because my second monitor is actually my TV.

[livelite]

I don't think it's an NVidia cards only issue, since I'm using a Dell Vostro 1500 laptop, which has the Intel GM965 integrated graphics controller, and the same problem happens when an external monitor is connected.

This has been happening in Ubuntu 10.10, 10.04, 9.10 and probably earlier.

Try the Greasemonkey script workaround until this is fixed, it works quite nicely.