YouTube videos only maximizing within window

[Kamil 315]

Since the most recent of YouTube's poorly-received and all-too-frequent complete interface overhaul, along with the myriad of problems that I have heard from others, I have been forced to watch some videos without proper fullscreen. Specifically, for certain uploaders (It does seem to be the same ones every time, and as far as I know it happens to all of those channels' videos, but I don't know of anything specific to connect WHICH channels.) hitting the fullscreen button in the bottom right of the video controls only causes the video to fill the window, rather than the whole screen. For clarification, this is what the video should look like:

 

And this is what the video actually looks like:

 

I have already reported the problem using the "send feedback" button helpfully located absolutely everywhere, but since it persists I am forced to ask whether anybody else here has had this problem, and whether they've fixed it somehow on their own. While simply having my taskbar and tabs visible while watching a video would be tolerable, videos which display in this format also have extra bugs, such as serious audio stuttering, massively reduced playback speed, and the inability to hide video controls.

 

Now for those wondering how I got the "normal" screenshot, or those who hate Internet Explorer, or those who might actually find this information usable in providing a legitimate solution, I have a single response:

The problem simply doesn't exist when using Chrome rather than Internet Explorer 9. I have also not noticed it when using Internet Explorer 10 on another device, but that may just be due to the fact that the Metro IE10 app doesn't have any fixed on-screen interface, so the effective window is the same as the full screen. I strongly dislike Chrome and FireFox though, so telling me to switch browsers is not an answer that I will accept (though in the meantime, I will endure using Chrome for nothing but watching those specific videos).

Edited January 10, 2013 by Kamil

[Steve 290]

well that is a shame, it is still fits the whole screen for me, and i use firefox, but maybe its because i have the black youtube add-on

[Dark Fox 151]

Hit f11?

 

When I click an embeded youtube video it locks my arrow keys so I cant scroll the page unless I hit full screen and then return it back to normal size. Really annoying...

You hoofed me, im assuming it worked? to those who don't know f11, basically makes your entire browser full screen and removes the bottom and top sections.

 

It's also good for flash games that don't quite fit the entire screen.

[Kamil 315]

Hit f11?

 

When I click an embeded youtube video it locks my arrow keys so I cant scroll the page unless I hit full screen and then return it back to normal size. Really annoying...

This post is not only relevant, and in a very significant way a complete solution to my problem, it is also valuable information for general browsing. It is not everything I hoped for though, video playback using this method still contains the other problems I've encountered.

 

Regardless, kudos for being far more helpful than a great many people on the internet (including every single user of Yahoo! Answers, which I used to use before I realized that it was less effective at getting a real answer than asking in a YouTube comment section).

[Dark Fox 151]

Do you have the latest version of flash?

 

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html

 

Same with Java...

 

http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1

 

If none of that works go through your internet history and delete your cookies, history, cache and whatnot, sometimes that can slow it down, if all that fails uninstall and reinstall Internet explorer.

 

If all that fails and you're only seeing it on internet explorer then it's an update issue. if it's on the others it's a hardware issue.

 

Oh, and make sure you reboot after you've done everything, but mostly for reinstalling, however chances are it will work without having to reboot.

Edited January 10, 2013 by Dark Fox