Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

flash video fullscreen immediately reverts to normal

Bug #394479 reported by johnny doh on 2009-07-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #355020: Flash player can't play fullscreen videos. Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When viewing video in flash from youtube, hulu, atom.com or the like, clicking fullscreen -seems- to work, re-drawing the screen properly and presenting the full-screen video (briefly, maybe just a few frames) with the transport stuff at the bottom of the screen and "Hit ESC to exit fullscreen" presented, all of which promptly disappears as the program returns to its normal windowed default state. It doesn't crash FF, it just annoys the user :D

using ubuntu 9.04

u:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Version table:
*** 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

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johnny doh (johndoh75) wrote on 2009-07-01:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (289 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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johnny doh (johndoh75) wrote on 2009-07-01:

there's some new effects in Mplayer's behavior that make me wonder whether the issue is in the underlying video-handling. With mplayer in full-screen, moving the mouse (so as to reveal transport controls and display) causes the whole image to flicker a few times, revealing the desktop background image, before returning to the video with its controls.