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OT: Full screen video
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I'm running XP Professional on a laptop using a dual-screen display -
its own screen and a separate monitor. Whenever a web page plays a
video clip, it insists on playing it full-screen on one monitor as well
as at normal size on the one showing the web page. Is there a way of
stopping this full-screen malarkey? I just want the video displayed in
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Go into the graphics settings & switch it off. How you do this depends
on the card.
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What he said. I spend hours trying to work out how to turn it *on* :)
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the web page, normal size. It seems to do it regardless of whether it's
using the Windows Media Player plug-in or a.n. other.
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It's usually to do with the way the graphics chipset handles video overlay.
Try knocking the hardware acceleration back, one notch at a time, until it
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Well, that'll help your system performance....
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stops doing it.
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yep, go to advanced display properties and find the setting, something
to do with the video overlay I reckon. Some cards prefer playing video
on one screen rather than the other because of the HW video overlay
support. ISTR
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TIA
Tarby
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