Videos freeze in fullscreen mode in Chrome and Firefox

Question

When I maximize a flash OR HTML5 video, e.g. on youtube, the picture freezes but the video continues to play. I can still hear the sound and even see the mouse cursor switching from normal cursor to hand cursor when I hover over the position where a control button should be but the whole chrome window becomes unresponsive. The video is played fine if I don't enter fullscreen mode. That affects both flash and HTML5 videos.

How can I solve this issue?

System: Ubuntu 14.04 Google Chrome Stable 37.0.2062.120-1 Nvidia-331 331.38-0ubuntu7.1

How did you install Chrome, and have you tried it without extensions settings etc? — Wilf, Sep 28 '14 at 18:54
Also, do any errors appear when you run Chrome in terminal, and you try full-screening the video(s)? — Wilf, Sep 28 '14 at 19:05

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 12 '15 at 21:53

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I had the same issue, people have found this thread helpful. However it didn't work for me, so I troubleshooted for a bit, and figured that it must be some clash between the kernel handling my discrete video card(Nvidia GeForce 630m) , which however seems to be fixed by installing and running tlp. Added bonus, more battery life :) :)

answered Jan 12 '15 at 21:53

Endematic

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Thanks for this. It fixed the random freezing of html5 video on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 3rd Gen when trying to leave the fullscreen mode – Daniel Jan 24 '16 at 08:43

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '16 at 14:43

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Disable HW acceleration in Firefox and Chrome/Chromium. Today's Google-Chrome update fixed the issue for me but before that, disabling the hardware acceleration was what fixed the problem.

answered Feb 10 '16 at 14:43

userDepth

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This worked for me. Thanks a lot! – Akash Jun 22 '20 at 06:17
Forgot to mention. I also change this layers.gpu-process.enabled to false in about:config – Akash Jun 22 '20 at 18:18
Worked for me. Is there a fix for this instead of a work around? Meaning that I would like to keep using hardware acceleration while having full screen working properly. – Dmitry Mugtasimov Jan 01 '21 at 12:28

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 12 '18 at 07:35

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Type about:config in FireFox address bar, accept the risk warning. in the about:config search bar type:

media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled;

Set it to true

Also change:

media.hardware-video-decoding.failed;

Set it to false

edited Feb 12 '18 at 07:35

galoget

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answered Feb 11 '18 at 21:55

j par

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Could you explain please why this is expected to help? – Alexey May 02 '20 at 12:09

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 30 '18 at 14:59

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You don't need to uncheck the hardware acceleration.... Do this instead:

In the menu, click on Tools ==> option

Then in General, find the following:

Digital Rights Management (DRM) Content

UNCHECK IT... That's it.

answered Oct 30 '18 at 14:59

LogicProBrain

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 08 '16 at 23:35

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a post on the google chrome help forum suggests that resetting the browser zoom (Ctrl+0) works around this problem.

answered Feb 08 '16 at 23:35

Eliran Malka

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Videos freeze in fullscreen mode in Chrome and Firefox

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