How do I get streaming web videos to stay full screen on a second monitor?
January 4, 2009 4:18 PM Subscribe
How do I keep a web window full-screen on one monitor while working on another?
So basically I have just hooked up my old 32" CRT TV to my PC via S-video as a second monitor.
One thing I want to be able to do is have Youtube / Joost / whatever-streaming-webs-source videos playing full screen on the TV whilst working on my PC.
Whilst this works with keeping apps (e.g. VLC / windows media player) full screen, when I play a flash video via Joost or Youtube in Firefox and expand it to fullscreen on the TV, it just collapses back down again the moment I click anything on my primary monitor.
I tried searching around and couldn't find an obvious solution for this - anyone have any bright ideas?
Thanks in advance!
So basically I have just hooked up my old 32" CRT TV to my PC via S-video as a second monitor.
One thing I want to be able to do is have Youtube / Joost / whatever-streaming-webs-source videos playing full screen on the TV whilst working on my PC.
Whilst this works with keeping apps (e.g. VLC / windows media player) full screen, when I play a flash video via Joost or Youtube in Firefox and expand it to fullscreen on the TV, it just collapses back down again the moment I click anything on my primary monitor.
I tried searching around and couldn't find an obvious solution for this - anyone have any bright ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Apparently unchecking "Hardware Accelerating" fixes it. Right click on the video, Settings.
posted by nitsuj at 4:42 PM on January 4, 2009
posted by nitsuj at 4:42 PM on January 4, 2009
Also -- and this is a bit weird -- I asked this same question nearly three years ago. Strange thing is, I didn't remember asking it, and only came across it when searching Google for an answer.
posted by nitsuj at 4:47 PM on January 4, 2009
posted by nitsuj at 4:47 PM on January 4, 2009
somebody else had the same issue here:
http://www.wowzamedia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3319
(no resolution)
I don't know enough about auto hot key scripts.. but somebody here might..
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic37595.html
and this may help, but I am no coder:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081031230536AAOKmPv
posted by defcom1 at 5:16 PM on January 4, 2009
http://www.wowzamedia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3319
(no resolution)
I don't know enough about auto hot key scripts.. but somebody here might..
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic37595.html
and this may help, but I am no coder:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081031230536AAOKmPv
posted by defcom1 at 5:16 PM on January 4, 2009
A shot in the dark- Can you change your display settings so that the TV is considered the primary monitor?
posted by PueExMachina at 5:42 PM on January 4, 2009
posted by PueExMachina at 5:42 PM on January 4, 2009
A lot of apps don't play nice with multi-mon. This may be one of them where it assumes if you clicked outside it, it should go back to how it was.
I use Windows Media Center on my secondary display (which is also a TV, but attached via dsub VGA connector) and it stays full screen just fine. I often watch netflix on-demand stuff in IE full screen on that monitor as well (yeah silverlight).
posted by jeffamaphone at 6:47 PM on January 4, 2009
I use Windows Media Center on my secondary display (which is also a TV, but attached via dsub VGA connector) and it stays full screen just fine. I often watch netflix on-demand stuff in IE full screen on that monitor as well (yeah silverlight).
posted by jeffamaphone at 6:47 PM on January 4, 2009
On your display properties - settings tab, select the second monitor from the drop down list and then uncheck "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor". I think unchecking this will make your computer treat your monitors as an individual screens rather than treat both as one wide screen. Then you can maximize a window on monitor 2 while working normally on monitor 1.
posted by atm at 8:47 PM on January 4, 2009
posted by atm at 8:47 PM on January 4, 2009
for netflix on a mac go to settings / displays and drag the white bar over to your 2nd monitor..full screen will now open on that 2nd monitor.
posted by pinto at 8:10 PM on March 28, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by pinto at 8:10 PM on March 28, 2009 [2 favorites]
This thread is closed to new comments.
If the site was displaying the video by opening a new browser window and scaling the flash movie to 100% you'd be fine, but you'll rarely find this. The advantage to using the built-in fullscreen method is hardware acceleration.
I'll have a quick look around, but I don't think there's a solution. A strange workaround could be to zoom that portion of the screen ; on the Mac, this is usually done by holding down Option or Command and moving the scroll wheel. I'm not sure what the equivalent on Windows is. It's a pretty rubbish workaround though!
posted by sektah at 4:41 PM on January 4, 2009