NVIDIA Surround + Chrome + Youtube full screen = Black screens and audio

Viper GTS

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I have a triple flipped-portrait Surround setup with three 2560x1440 displays. Since migrating to this setup I have been unable to play full-screen web video in Chrome. This includes YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Anything with a full-screen option just results in black screens but the audio still plays. Escaping out of full-screen mode takes you back to a broken tab that won't play video again (continues to show black in the player). Closing the tab and re-opening the same video will once again allow normal playback until you hit the full-screen option.

Full screen video works fine in IE9.

System is 3770K on Z68 + GTX 470 SLI. Running the brand new GeForce driver set from today, but no improvement from the last version. Driver has been uninstalled/reinstalled, surround re-configured, etc. with no luck.

Any ideas?

Viper GTS
 
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Viper GTS

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Nope. Problem has persisted through upgrade to Windows 8, and now the 8.1 preview.

Seriously annoying.

Viper GTS
 

DPOverLord

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the only work around I have is to load VLC and get the Web HTTP id and play in vlc and do a custom crop and custom aspect ration I got that from WSG forum
 

MrK6

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I looked it up, it's a built-in safety feature to prevent your inevitable occipital hemorrhage from the ensuing awesomeness.
 

DPOverLord

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DPOverLord

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I figured it out! I should probably make a seperate thread.

So as you know if you have Nvidia Surround and use Chrome, that when you go into full screen mode some of you are unable to see full videos on your screen for youtube(unless you use html5), your favorite other sites that use flash. Before I get into details here is the fix:

1. Go to chrome://plugins/ and disabled the adobe flash player there

2. Go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and click windows, then on the drop down click "Install for other Operating Systems"

3. Install

4. Now go to chrome://plugins/ it should look like this below

Code:
Adobe Flash Player (2 files) - Version: 11,9,900,170
Shockwave Flash 11.9 r900
Name:	Shockwave Flash
Description:	Shockwave Flash 11.9 r900
Version:	11.9.900.170
Location:	C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\31.0.1650.63\PepperFlash\pepflashplayer.dll
Type:	PPAPI (out-of-process)
 	 Enable
MIME types:	
MIME type	Description	File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash	Shockwave Flash	
.swf
application/futuresplash	FutureSplash Player	
.spl
Name:	Shockwave Flash
Description:	Shockwave Flash 11.9 r900
Version:	11,9,900,170
Location:	C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32_11_9_900_170.dll
Type:	NPAPI
 	 Enable
MIME types:	
MIME type	Description	File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash	Adobe Flash movie	
.swf
application/futuresplash	FutureSplash movie	
.spl
Disable   Always allowed

5. They both have the saying Enable. The key is to go to NPAPI and click Enable.

6. Wallah it's fixed.

Ok so for you techno geeks out there, why does this work? Based off my research in short, Scroogle and Adobe teamed up so that flash was native in the API of Chrome. The problem is that it is incompatible with a lot of "High End setups" So most users will never see our issue due to how, "who is going to have 3 monitors right" If you want the terms PPAPI means Out of process and NPAPI is more like being in process.

So there you go see full screen video to your hearts content.
 

mindbomb

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chrome's flash player doesn't support extremely high resolutions. It's not anything specific to nvidia surround I think.

Use html5