Dual monitor Youtube full screen help

Question

I have a dual monitor set up. The monitor to my left i use mainly for chat and sometimes tutorial pages. When im at youtube for instance and i want clik full screen the full screen automatically goes to the second window. I need it in the main. Is there something I can do so it does the by default

Answer 1

The only successful workaround that I have found so far is an extension for Chrome:

Multiple Monitor Full Screen

It maximises the Youtube video to the Chrome window which you can then Fullscreen on which ever monitor you like.

You should be aware of a small exiting from full-screen bug that affects Chrome on Ubuntu. Flash swallows the F11 key command so use Ctrl-Tab to switch to a non-flash tab and use F11 from there.

Answer 2

This works:

http://www.ubunturoot.com/2011/07/fullscreen-flash-video-with-dual.html

Answer 3

There is some code here

https://github.com/ali1234/fullscreenhack

which creates a small wrapper library that can be pre-loaded before launching firefox or chrome and it fixes the information about the screen sizes that flash uses, so you get full screen flash on either monitor at the correct full size. It is quite simple to set up

sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev
git clone git://github.com/ali1234/fullscreenhack.git
cd fullscreenhack
make
env LD_PRELOAD=./libfullscreenhack.so firefox

then try a video full screen.

Answer 4

I think the best solution is using the MaximizeFlash plugin for Chrome. It detects any flash in the page and you can make them fullscreen. To get rid of toolbar up just hit f11. You dont need to install any other apps.

Answer 5

I recommend UMPLAYER for youtube videos, also searching, watching and saving features includes.

HD videos and much more.

Would you test features of youtube?

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/umplayer-available-in-webupd8-ubuntu.html

Answer 6

Minitube

Use this app as a workaround with additional powers of download/save/search as well as NOT using flashplayer you may wish to try.

Shows any resolution windowed or full screen on any screen but as a word of warning - Minitube is not an attempt to emulate Youtube, just a way to screen videos. Works well.

Answer 7

My preferred workaround for flash fullscreen multiple monitors issues is MaximizeFlash extension for Chrome.

It allows the flash video to fill the entire browser window, which can then be put in fullscreen and you can work in another window.

Only downside is that the flash controls are still visible.

Answer 8

There is a very similar issue which does not answer exactly your question, but still might be helpful for your usecase. When watching fullscren HTML5 videos (e.g. youtube), the video closes by default if you click anywhere. This behavour can be disabled in Firefox by setting full-screen-api.exit-on-deactivate to false in about:config. Anyhow, this does not effect Flash videos.

http://support.mozilla.org/de/questions/927294