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How to watch Youtube fullscreen on one monitor of a dual-monitor display, in Linux?
If I do it in Google Chrome, as soon as I do anything at the other monitor, Chrome jumps back to normal window.
Edit: added that OS is Linux.
Computist
Posted 2011-10-28T15:43:53.453
Reputation: 2 341
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Finally I stumbled upon a very easy solution:
- Go to a video on YouTube, in this example I am going to use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2L2UGZJAM
Modify the link slightly (this works with ANY video on YouTube)
From:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2L2UGZJAM
To:http://www.youtube.com/v/6v2L2UGZJAMEnjoy your video!
You can also press F11 if you want to toggle between fullscreen mode (in your browser, not the video itself) which will increase the size of the image slightly.
kachar
Posted 2011-10-28T15:43:53.453
Reputation: 396
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This is the default behavior of Flash in a browser, and you need to tweak Flash itself to work around the issue. I've had luck with FlashHacker in the past, and the dev now has a Chrome-specific version:
Garrett
Posted 2011-10-28T15:43:53.453
Reputation: 4 039
1It doesn't seem to work for Linux? – Computist – 2011-10-28T15:56:19.197
Nope it's designed for Windows only. I believe there are patches out there for Linux as well but I don't recall any off the top of my head. – Garrett – 2011-10-28T16:13:54.083
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The workaround I use is to zoom in on the page (command+ on a Mac).
Certainly not perfect but is doing a great job, allowing me to watch the Olympics on one monitor while working on another.
Yaron Guez
Posted 2011-10-28T15:43:53.453
Reputation: 11
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I use VLC for that. It can even load playlists (might need some extra scripts for that to work). Also it skips advertisments.
Just press Ctrl+N and enter youtube url.
gmk
Posted 2011-10-28T15:43:53.453
Reputation: 11
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I use a Firefox plugin that automatically changes all YouTube videos to HTML5 (converts them on the spot). HTML5 video doesn't break when I click somewhere else.
Tom
Posted 2011-10-28T15:43:53.453
Reputation: 1
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I was looking for the same solution and suddenly reminded about minitube which does the job perfectly. Just enter unique video id or use the searcher.
homer121
Posted 2011-10-28T15:43:53.453
Reputation: 1
Does not work for all videos, some of them return an error "This video contains content from ... . It is restricted from playback on certain sites. Watch on YouTube". – Radu Maris – 2014-09-03T12:21:37.627
Wow! Super cool solution for youtube + firefox 33.0 + ubuntu 14.04 here. No need for an add-on or strange hack. – malisokan – 2014-11-16T22:51:13.640
1This is a perfectly good solution for windows as well. – Octopus – 2013-06-06T07:00:04.317