YouTube Adds True Fullscreen via Flash 9 Player
greg @ 10:01 am — Filed under: 
YouTube has upgraded their fullscreen feature of their video player, which is true full screen using the flash 9 player (no cheezy huge pop up windows here). One of the truely nice aspects of this upgrade is jumping back and fourth between full screen and windowed mode requires no break in the video play back. Cool stuff.
On a related note, good little video related to the youtube player HERE.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Fullscreen Flash is definitely a great development for online video. They rolled this out a few months ago, actually, and now I see that quite a few of the others have added it as well. The seamless jump to fullscreen is definitely the greatest part.
We will be rolling this out on Votisodes soon, too.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:22 am
[...] The player has made a dent in the market already. It helps that MySpace and YouTube both require Flash 9. It’s all far faster. The error messaging is much better, meaning when something breaks you’ll actually be able to diagnose why (as opposed to the old guess and check method). [...]
August 21st, 2007 at 6:04 pm
[...] of adoption was greatly helped by MySpace upgrading to Flash 9 in response to a security fix, and YouTube upgrading to Flash 9 for the fullscreen video feature. Adoption of such a rapid scale, by companies as significant as MySpace and YouTube, should act as [...]
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:24 am
[...] Flash 9 to operate, but this is a far smaller problem when you consider YouTube and MySpace already upgraded to Flash [...]