Windows – How to make YouTube videos fill up an entire screen when using dual monitors

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I am using a dual monitor setup on Ubuntu 9.10 using the TwinView configuration in NIVIDA X Server Settings. My total resolution is 2960×1050 pixels, and my individual monitors are 1680×1050 (primary) and 1280×1024 (secondary).

When going into fullscreen mode on any video on YouTube, I only see a cropped version of the video on my primary display as seen below. This does not occur on any other video sharing website – they properly make the video to fill the entire screen on my primary monitor. To my knowledge this problem only happens on YouTube.

Cropped YouTube video in fullscreen

I would rather not have to manually download YouTube videos to watch them – I want to be able to view YouTube videos directly from the YouTube website.

Best Answer

Advice that might help:

  1. Right-click on the YouTube image and select Settings. Select 'display' tab on bottom of Settings window (probably the leftmost), uncheck "Enable hardware acceleration".
  2. The Firefox add-on Glazoom might be helpful. It zooms to make your desired section of a page fit into the viewport and adds a zoom control panel to the statusbar.
  3. Modify the YouTube link slightly, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxx or similar to http://www.youtube.com/v/xxxx
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