On Tue, 2010/07/06 10:16:35 -0700, Lara Michaels wrote:
To make Youtube videos display in fullscreen
This doesn’t directly answer your questions, but it worked for me. I used to have problems watching YouTube videos fullscreen, but they all went away when I removed Flash and replaced it with Gnash, the open-source SWF player. The YouTube interface even looks nicer in Gnash than in Adobe Flash (I’m not sure exactly why, but the play button and text look somehow better). Also, I can close individual Flash objects, by right-clicking them and choosing Quit, to eliminate annoying animation on web pages. The only downside is that Gnash uses much more CPU time on my machine (I don’t know if that is a general Gnash problem, a Gnash compile-time configuration problem, or a misconfiguration in my X.org config or other graphics libraries). I don’t have full-screen windows set to automatically float, so when I click the full-screen button in YouTube, Gnash opens a tiled window that scales its contents to the size of the window. Flash used to scale the contents to the screen and only showed half of the video in a standard Tall layout. When I switch to Full layout the video goes full-screen; Flash immediately closed the window when I used Full. Escape works to return the window to the browser, as it did in Flash. Also, I can switch focus without the window closing, a problem I had in Flash. Mainly I switched away from Flash because Adobe stopped supporting 64-bit Linux. I had problems using the 32-bit wrapper, which is why I installed the 64-bit alpha in the first place. But now there are known vulnerabilities in the 64-bit version that will not be fixed.