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    Video streams won't play full screen

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ricksaint, Jan 6, 2010.

  1. ricksaint

    ricksaint Notebook Consultant

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    My display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M. If I play Adobe Flash live video streams in small screen, everything is fine. But when I put them on full screen some will play fine while others will play for a few seconds then freeze up, then
    - either revert to small screen with the following message: Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
    - or crash Firefox altogether.

    Sites like YouTube and Dailymotion work fine in full screen.

    My old HP dv7 used to play any live video stream without problem.

    I tried to update the driver but I get the message that it has the newest driver available.

    Is there any change I can make in the Properties to fix this?
     
    ricksaint, Jan 6, 2010
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    mooler Notebook Consultant

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    Try disabling hardware acceleration perhaps?
     
    mooler, Jan 7, 2010
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    ricksaint Notebook Consultant

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    How do I do that?

    Anyway I found a temporary solution. I just zoom the screen to a larger size...
     
    ricksaint, Jan 7, 2010
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    right click on the flash video and uncheck hardware acceleration
     
    mooler, Jan 12, 2010
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