Opened 15 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#3515 closed defect (obsolete)
When running a flash video in fullscreen mode, the flash video hangs
| Reported by: | dan | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 2.1.4 |
| Keywords: | flash fullscreen | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | other |
Description (last modified by )
I am running Ubuntu 8.10 64bit as a Host System and Windows XP SP3 Prof. as a Guest System. Watching flash videos like www.thedailyshow.com for example, all works fine until i put the flash video in fullscreen mode (not the whole vm, only make the flash fill out the whole window) As soon as i click fullscreen, it goes fullscreen but the video hangs, the sound keeps going normally but the video is frozen at the first frame, when i click "back to normal size" video resumes playing but video and sound are out of sync. I have attached my VBox.log in case that helps.
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by , 15 years ago
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
comment:2 by , 15 years ago
Uninstalling the Guest Additions fixes the Problem. So does disabling Hardware Acceleration in the Flashplugin options. So i guess it has some issues with the GA drivers.
comment:3 by , 15 years ago
I also get the same problem running on 32bit host xubuntu 8.10 and guest machine Windows XP Pro SP3. Tested in both firefox and IE. Uninstalling G.A. fixes the issue.
Link to the forum topic (for more information on what was tested and tried): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6861669&posted=1#post6861669
comment:4 by , 15 years ago
I had a friend with Debian Sid test it, it runs fine for him on his machine, may be an Ubuntu related Problem?
comment:5 by , 15 years ago
Flash also sometimes suffers from choppy playback and after watching severalkl minutes video and audio gets out of sync, disabling guestadditions fixes that too.
comment:6 by , 14 years ago
I have Windows XP 32b hosted on Mac OS X 10.6.2 in VirtualBox 3.1.2 (guest addition installed) and I have same problem :-) Flash Video in full-screen is stalled only sound works.
follow-up: 8 comment:7 by , 14 years ago
It seems from tests that I did that Any WinXP guest @any host (tried linux, XP, Vista and Seven as hosts) suffers the same problem.
I had to disabled Hadrware acceleration on flash in order to play youtube videos on full screen, and they play quite ugly.
Normal window is just fine.
comment:8 by , 14 years ago
I have installed VirtualBox 3.1.8 with additions 3.1.8. I still get flash freezing in full screen. I concur that stopping hardware acceleration is not an option. I got this error, using 32bit XP guest on windows 7 64 host, Kubuntu 10.04 64bit host, Kubuntu 9.10 64 host, Windows Xp 32 Bit.
If you press F11 (browser full screen mode) and zoom in on the video using Firefox or one of the zoom extensions installable in Firefox, you can see the movie very close to full screen size without the freezing effect. This means that the error is probably a very small bug that is easy to fix. Probably one line of code that needs to be changed somewhere.
Can you PLEASE fix it, I've seem postings that go back as far as 2008 about this bug...
Replying to mudito:
It seems from tests that I did that Any WinXP guest @any host (tried linux, XP, Vista and Seven as hosts) suffers the same problem.
I had to disabled Hadrware acceleration on flash in order to play youtube videos on full screen, and they play quite ugly.
Normal window is just fine.
comment:9 by , 8 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Resolution: | → obsolete |
| Status: | new → closed |
Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.
Forgot to mention, i tried with IE and Firefox, both have the same issue. I also tried with Metacity and Compiz in the Host os, with and without nvidia driver enabled, also in and out of fullscreen mode of the vm.