[awils]

So.. I'm having this issue where whenever I try to go fullscreen on youtube in Vista the page has a diagonal separator where the top half is white, and the bottom half is black. I'm guessing that it's a flash incompatibility with vista and youtube... but come on.


Anyone have any ideas as to how I would be able to fix this issue?

[Rollin' Rog]

Not that I know of -- but different browsers can handle it differently.

Try an alternate browser and see if it still happens.

What screen resolution are you using by the way?

[awils]

I'm using 1280 X 800. I've tried IE before, and it still comes up with the same thing. Someone said it may be a widescreen issue from the laptop. But I don't see how that would change anything haha.

[Rollin' Rog]

Any chance you could take a screenshot of this and upload it?

Is it only YouTube that does this, or do other sites which use Adobe Flash also misbehave?

Probably won't help, but there is a method of cleaning out Adobe Flash's cached data explained here >>

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...rnal-websites/

I would be very cautious about using CCleaner for anything else other than standard cache and cookie cleaning.


I wouldn't rule out it being a screen res problem, but I don't recall it when I had that type of desktop monitor on Vista with YouTube. Anyway, it's easy to test. You might try something close, like 1280 x 960, if available.

[rainforest123]

Go here, http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest , and click on the Flash 8 plugin based speed test.

Speed Test
Flash test (beta). Feedback is welcome. No test? verify plugin
Having difficulties with the test? Flash Speed Test FAQ is available.

Click on the link "plugin". If Flash is working, you will see a nifty little grahic.

RF123

[awils]

Ok... first things first.

Changing the screen resolution didn't help. But I had to switch it down because the one I have on currently is the highest I had.

Secondly, the flash test worked. I saw everything I was supposed to see from flash. I have the highest possible flash installed.

I'm about to try installing an old form of flash and see if that helps at all. The one I have is flash 9.0.115.0. Maybe that will help.

As for cleaning the cache for flash. That didn't help either. hmmm...

[Rollin' Rog]

Very strange alright -- is that a full screen screenshot, or just the viewing area?
Can you play a flash video full screen from this site without that occuring?

http://www.liveleak.com/?ogr=1

By the way, I had no problem with this site on Opera or IE7 going full screen -- but for some reason Firefox wouldn't do it -- it may be an issue with ad-blocking.

[hudey123]

Try checking out this thread in another forum...

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-perfor...sh-player.html

[rainforest123]

h3:
Wow!

Where did you come across that thread? Seems to match awils' problem, exactly.

RF123

[awils]

Amazing.. I can't even believe that actually worked. Unchecking the box in settings.. wow.. hahah

Ok.. thanks guys... this is one irritating issue that is now solved

[Rollin' Rog]

Great find -- I think the last time I tried to open Adobe's "Advanced" settings -- it would never open for me -- so I've never known what was there. A recent upgrade must have changed this.

[awils]

Yeah it must have. This is my first trip around with Vista.. so far.. .it's been interesting...