OSX Full Screen "Feature"

  • Resolved TheArtofRetouching

    (@theartofretouching)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Not sure if you are aware, but there is a “feature” in all versions of Mac OSX that cause a problem with some full screen viewing needs.

    I use your software for training videos, and many students want to view my videos larger than the size on web page, and then use the program I teach on another monitor, or off to the side.

    On PC’s (with firefox tested), the videos use some lightbox feature and grow “full screen” to the browser window, allowing them to scale to whatever size they want, it’s not really “full screen”. On Mac’s (all browsers), take over full screen, and even grey out the 2nd monitor. This means they can not control size with browser. Full screen really is full double-screen.

    Only solution I have found is to use Apple-Option-+ to scale text, images and video larger to browser size, then view videos. This is clunky, and not the experience I want to give paying students. I am aware this is an Apple issue, not yours. But can you think of a permanent solution for future release? Maybe include your own view in Lightbox option?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/flowplayer5/

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  • Flowplayer HTML5 uses html5 fullscreen, is does not use any lightbox-like feature. Fullscreen is not intended to allow resizing (for this, you could use a CSS switch which scales the video to 100% of the browser window), is is meant to cover the complete monitor (like Flash fullscreen). All my tests on PC browses use real fullscreen except some browses like IE9 which do not support html5 fs.

    Do you see this with our demos like https://demos.flowplayer.org/basics/minimal.html ? I don’t ?? real fullscreen in all major browsers….

    Thread Starter TheArtofRetouching

    (@theartofretouching)

    Yes, that video link goes full screen and covers both my monitors, which is exactly NOT what I want it to do.

    You mention as CCS Switch. But of course, I have no clue on what to type, or where to put it. I am css illiterate. ??

    That’s why building it in, and giving a simple checkbox is always the best way.

    Well what you do not want _is_ the correct behavior. Sorry. Fullscreen means covering the complete monitor.

    Your demand is a special case, which would be easy with a self-build page, but probably not in a CMS like WordPress, which dynamically generates stuff. Perhaps Ullrich has an idea how to inject this.

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