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    Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player

    On my Toshiba Satellite lap top I cannot get the flash player to play in full
    screen.
    Have tried downloading player from both Firefox and I.E
    When I hit the full screen button all I get is a blank screen with a
    diagonal line right across.
    Am to to lap tops .Has anyone any ideas I could try.
    Thanks



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    Re: Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player

    Quote Originally Posted by charlie View Post
    On my Toshiba Satellite lap top I cannot get the flash player to play in full
    screen.
    Have tried downloading player from both Firefox and I.E
    When I hit the full screen button all I get is a blank screen with a
    diagonal line right across.
    Am to to lap tops .Has anyone any ideas I could try.
    Thanks
    Hi Charlie,

    Did you already download the latest Adobe Flash Player, v9,0,115,0 released on 12-03/2007? Perhaps it will work better for you. I have no problems going to full screen mode with YouTube videos using it.

    http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...h&promoid=BIOW

    Shawn

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    RE: Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player



    "charlie" wrote:

    > On my Toshiba Satellite lap top I cannot get the flash player to play in full
    > screen.
    > Have tried downloading player from both Firefox and I.E
    > When I hit the full screen button all I get is a blank screen with a
    > diagonal line right across.
    > Am to to lap tops .Has anyone any ideas I could try.
    > Thanks
    Hi. I only got this lap top yesterday so I reckon I have got the latest
    version downloaded.
    I have no problem with this on my desktop computer so I was thinking maybe
    it is something I am not doing right with it. Thanks for replying.

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    Re: Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player

    Charlie,

    You might check your Internet Explorer security level settings and make sure for "Internet" you have it set to the "Default level (Medium-High)". When I bumped it up to "High", I had problems with the videos to. (Tools -> Internet Options -> Security tab)

    Hope this helps you track the problem.

    Shawn

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    Re: Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player


    Hello,

    I was getting the very same anomaly, (a diagonal, white on top/grey on
    bottom that flashed color when playing), and I just stumbled upon a
    quick fix:

    1. Right-click in the standard youtube video window (non-full
    screen).
    2. Choose 'Settings...' from the Flash Player's pop-up menu.
    3. Uncheck the 'Enable Hardware Acceleration'
    4. Click 'Close'.

    Full-screen should now work, or at least it did for me. Some kind of
    Flash incompatibility with latest Firefox build, it would seem. I am
    running vista, so maybe that has something to do with it, as well.
    Good luck!


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    Re: Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player

    Hi Freethinker,
    You are brilliant! That works just fine.
    Had previously looked on Adobe web site forum and the "boffins" there
    couldn't come up with something this simple.You are brilliant. Sorry for the
    delay in answering you. Thanks. Hope this helps others.

    "freethinker" wrote:

    >
    > Hello,
    >
    > I was getting the very same anomaly, (a diagonal, white on top/grey on
    > bottom that flashed color when playing), and I just stumbled upon a
    > quick fix:
    >
    > 1. Right-click in the standard youtube video window (non-full
    > screen).
    > 2. Choose 'Settings...' from the Flash Player's pop-up menu.
    > 3. Uncheck the 'Enable Hardware Acceleration'
    > 4. Click 'Close'.
    >
    > Full-screen should now work, or at least it did for me. Some kind of
    > Flash incompatibility with latest Firefox build, it would seem. I am
    > running vista, so maybe that has something to do with it, as well.
    > Good luck!
    >
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    Re: Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player

    thanks,

    great advise that was, everything works just fine even the BBC iPlayer

    Cheers

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    Re: Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player

    I had the same problem. Entered support tickets at the computers manufacturer (Acer) the Reseller (Paradigiti in the netherlands) and AMD (Mufacturer of my ATI Radeon 2600 Pro). All could not come up with this brilliant sollution!!

    Now I'm trying to find out why hardware accelaration is not supported. I did not by this rather expensive card to let my CPU do all the graphics work did I. If I get some positive feedback from the guys at AMD I will drop a line in this post.

    THX a million times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Re: Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player

    I have just been with a customer who has the same problem. However "Enable hardware acceleration" cannot be unticked. In fact, after right clicking, I cannot change any of the flash setting. He has a Toshiba Equium running Vista and the up-to-date flash. Any ideas why I cannot change the flash setting? I have been able to change them on every other computer I've come across.


    Thanks.

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    Re: Cannot get full screen in You Tube with Flash Player

    Ive got a reply from AMD. As it seems their newest driver (8.1) has some known issues in Vista, they advised me to try the older 7.3 version. I haven't tried this yet but maybe it will solve your problem in the meantime.

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