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    Youtube problem on M11x r3...

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by CZroe, Jun 23, 2011.

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    I can't enter full screen in Youtube videos while they play without the screen going blank. Because it usually bumps the video to 480p from 360p, pausing it first doesn't help. I have to enter full screen and exit or switch to 480p first, pause the video, then enter full screen and start playback to view it in full screen. Even then, if I scrub (manipulate the progress bar), it goes blank again until I exit, pause, and re-enter full screen.

    This is very annoying. I downloaded the latest Intel drivers and it didn't fix anything. I don't see any updated nVidia drivers but the nVidia GPU Activity Monitor does not indicate that it's in use anyway.

    Does anyone else have this problem? It's such a pain that I end up watching most videos in the browser window. :(

    It does not do it when I disable HW acceleration and I should have the latest version of Flash Player.
     
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    OK, Flash wouldn't update to 10.3 automatically but doing that manually *sorta* fixed it. It didn't help that Adobe's site simply would not prompt me for the install and still shows out-dated IE installation instructions.

    After updating, now I usually see black for a second or two, as if it needs to wait for a keyframe before the video starts displaying again when I switch modes.
     
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