[ddreg]

Is it just me or since the YouTube tag was implemented here, I don't get the full screen button on the YouTube embedded videos anymore?

[sg]

Just click on the youtube logo, will jump off to the full youtube page with that video, then go fullscreen

[OverloadUT]

The problem is the YouTube tag is injecting the old <object> based embed code, rather than the newer, much better iframe based embed code. The webdev should be able to fix this by changing the code.

[Fred Wilson]

What is the trick for the reverse issue?
Buddy posted a PG film of flying Yamaska in Quebec
But it goes to Full Screen HD only. Only way out seems to be to escape and quit. Not what I want.

See http://www.youtube.com/embed/ilmY-0ZB8Jg

- I want to run it in small screen off to the side while I do other work.

Any hints?

[gasdive]

Make the url look like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilmY-0ZB8Jg&


Link

[ddreg]

Looks like what the Youtube tag template needs is:
<param
name="allowFullScreen"
value="true">
</param>

If its using the <object> tag.

http://beerpla.net/2010/01/12/are-your-youtube-video-embeds-missing-the-full-screen-button-here-is-how-to-fix-it/

Sometimes I'll play an embedded video here and If it looks interesting enough then I'll want to go full screen then realize there isn't a full screen button. I have to go to youtube and rebuffer the whole thing again.

So I take it its not just some setting in my browser? Other people have that problem too?

[Dawson]

actually, ddreg, there's a tiny little bit more to it than just adding the <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" >tag.

1 - append &fs=1 to the the url in the <param name="movie" tag
2 - append &fs=1 to the src parameter of the <embed tag
3 - add the <param name="allowFullScreen" ga After the <param name="movie" but before the <embed tag
4 - add allowfullscreen="true" to the embed tag

SG, I tested these with firebug on this page and it seems to work without any issue, but I don't know if these are incompatible with other work you've done on this site.

The resulting html for the above youtube movie is: - note, phpbb is html encoding the ampersands in the two urls - obviously they should be ampersands not &amp;s

<object height="350" width="425">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ilmY-0ZB8Jg&amp;fs=1">
<param value="true" name="allowFullScreen">
<embed height="350" width="425" allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ilmY-0ZB8Jg&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
</object>

Dawson