ambiance Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Just wondering if it's possible and yes I have searched Google to no avail. The only thing I have found is removing the 'watch?v=' and replacing it with '/v/', but it just fills the browser and is not true full screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted June 7, 2010 Veteran Share Posted June 7, 2010 i dont think its possible at least not without embedding it within your own page, it might be possible then but even then im not so sure :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProChefChad Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Yeah, I don't think this is possible and I don't think they would make it possible. Unless your users already know that it's going to auto-fullscreen the video, they would be both surprised and probably upset by that. Moreover, Google wouldn't want themselves associated with such a user experience. So, there's very little chance they would ever create this functionality. As noted, you can probably embed a video in your own page and then write some JavaScript to make the player fullscreen. Out of curiosity, why do you want to automatically make the video full-screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambiance Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 It's a NASA video and would look best in HD full screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 But it should be up to the user to watch it in a "window" or fullscreen. You know everyone have different viewing experience ways. Please don't force your ways down others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gary7 Subscriber² Posted June 8, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted June 8, 2010 with the help of users on the VR-Zone forums, has uncovered a simple way to get high-quality uploaded videos to display in 1280x720--also known as 720p.YouTube has long been expected to roll out high-definition video playback, and this appears to be the first viable way to do it. The hack in question is similar to the one that was first used to toggle on the "high quality" mode. It is done simply by adding "&fmt=22" to the end of the video URL. I got it to work without any problems on a video I uploaded earlier this morning. What's interesting here is that it was not ready at the same time the Flash version was. In my case, it took about 15 minutes longer for the HD version to display. YouTube could be doing the second round of processing for these higher-resolution videos at the same time it's doing H.264 conversions for playback on TiVo digital video recorders and iPhones. My original upload was H.264 to begin with, so that could have sped things up. Getting the higher-resolution video to display properly in embedded code is not so easy--but as you can see below, it works and looks gorgeous. You have to manually go in and change the embedded-link structure--something newbies might want to steer clear of. The YouTube embed technology for HD videos is missing the option to view in full screen, but you can toggle it on from the Google service's hosted video page. One thing to note is that some folks to whom I sent this had problems getting the clip to display on older hardware. On my Intel Core2Duo machine, my CPU usage shot up from around 10 percent to 40 percent, and it peaked at 70 percent. This also happens on other HD video sites, such as Vimeo and Dailymotion. If you're using a computer equipped with a chip less powerful than an Intel Pentium 4, you might run into problems source Try this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reacon Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Nvm; didn't read post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan- Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Not to sure you can get the entire screen unless maybe you threw JavaScript in there? But even so that doesn't really amount to a clickable link (in terms of email/IM/etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambiance Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 But it should be up to the user to watch it in a "window" or fullscreen. You know everyone have different viewing experience ways. Please don't force your ways down others. Normally I would agree with you, but this is for my mom and she isn't very tech savvy. Since the video I'm showing her is 720p, it would be best viewed in full screen. You almost seem to be taking this personal. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 then show her the fullscreen button on the seekbar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen! Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 I don't know how to do it and I don't think it is possible, I'm also interested in it so anyone who solve this please me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stetson Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 Yeah, I would imagine that Youtube specifically doesn't want you to do this. Imagine how annoying it would be to click on a webpage link and have full screen video take over. Getting Rick Rolled would be much much worse. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambiance Posted June 9, 2010 Author Share Posted June 9, 2010 Getting rolled would be much worse, but it would have been nice to have that option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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