I quickly whipped up an example that shows the new Fullscreen feature of the Flash Player. If you want to test the functionality as well as testing out your CPU/performance just follow the link. I'll be working today on more examples with high bitrate encoded FLV's. Please post your questions or feedback :)
UPDATE 1: Make sure you have the latest beta plugin ( 9.0.18.60 ) installed, which you can download here.
UPDATE 2: I have another example where the source material is film, which looks absolutely stunning fullscreen.
UPDATE 3: Stefan has posted another great example that takes up the whole screen :)
Link: Fabchannel.com wins Webby for Best Music - Fabchannel.com.
Link: Cars Trailer - Mutoid.nl
That is too Nice! Thanks for the example. I was hoping someone would post one.
Posted by: diamondtearz | Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 13:18
Fullscreen didn't work for me. It made it larger, but not even the full width of the browser.
I am running OSX 10.4.7, Firefox 1.5.0.7, Flash Player 9.0.20
Posted by: kent | Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 13:39
Hi kent, you need to install the beta player. Please check the previous posting ( http://blog.owenvandijk.nl/2006/10/fullscreen_flas.html ) for the link :)
Posted by: ohwhen | Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 13:54
This don't work in Safari on Intel Macs.
Installed player 9.0.20.0.
As Kent stated it makes the video bigger, but not fulls creen and doesn't event fill the browser.
It alo starts off as if its in full screen but the video is in its small state. You have to select "Exit Full Screen" first (which does nothing) before you can select "Go Full Screen" which makes the video bigger.
Posted by: Tink | Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 15:06
That's awesome. Could you tell us what is the magic code you're using to make that happen?
Flash.fullScreen = yesPlease?
Posted by: Paul Neave | Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 15:06
@Paul:
It's really simple, just use:
Stage["displayState"] = "fullScreen"; // "normal"
or add the property to Stage.as in your classes folder. Then make sure you listen for the onFullScreen events that are fired by the Stage class to reposition the content when the ESC key is hit.
@Tink:
Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately i have only a n older powerbook available. I think it's a bug?
Posted by: ohwhen | Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 15:16
hi!
here's another demo, using the FLV Playback Component:
http://www.video-flash.de/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/flvplayback_fullscreen_demo.html
I've replaced the forwardButton of the Component with a fullscreenButton. Source here:
http://www.video-flash.de/index.php/flv-playback-component-fullscreen-skin/
I also replaced the button-symbols with vector-graphics, because the looked ugly in fullscreen-mode.
Ciao Flo
Posted by: flo | Monday, October 09, 2006 at 11:52
Hi,
Here is another demo using Rich Media Project components :
http://www.rich-media-project.com/fullscreen
Try to use IE then Mozilla and you will see the awesome difference.
Posted by: Rich Media Project | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 14:23
Great stuff!!!
Posted by: MrSteel | Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 14:17
Hey full screen video looks great! Just wondering what were the settings used to convert that file to flv? It looks really good fullscreen.
Posted by: Rayan | Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 03:47
Wow ! It's fantastic for sure.
I sorry but I wasn't able to get your's to work without stopping every few seconds but I was able to get Stefan's BBC clip to work. I noticed that your clip only downloads a swf file while Stefan's downloaded a flv file and swf. Any reason for this ?
Posted by: Colin | Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 06:21
What was your encoding specs and what was your final flv file size?
Posted by: Andy | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 19:32
Hi there, great demo, any idea if you can set an object ie. the flvplayer to go full screen rather than the stage so if you have a menu etc the video goes full screen rather than everything.
Cheers
Jack
Posted by: jack | Wednesday, November 01, 2006 at 16:16
You need version 9,0,28,0 on PC and Mac to get it to work.
Posted by: Mayuresh | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 00:25
Hello,
I'm having the issue that Jack refers to. How to get just the FLV component to go full rather than the whole stage. Anyone ever figure that out?
Thanks!
Posted by: GaryDev | Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 13:53
Hi , i love this video thing its an awesome future in webdesig. The question is : could any video get full screened without the users interferance? And could it be posible to actualy make an website with video technology? Thanks.
Posted by: Costinkara | Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 22:41
Hi, very cool tool. :)
Posted by: Gregor | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 13:18
Very Impressive, I must emm acquire Macromedia 9 tonight and try one of these on my site. Thanks keep up the great work.
Posted by: JOHNS DOES | Friday, July 13, 2007 at 23:17
very Coool!!!
Can some explain in detail how to do it.
Posted by: alflashy | Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 21:33
i made a somewhat custom video player placed on a flash site which uses a video object controlled by mc control buttons.. my problem is, i cant make it the video player display fullscreen because the whole flash site fullscreens, can anyone help me? i cannot use any of the classes used in the stage class or any of the commands for fullscreen(fullscreenTakeOver, etc)
Posted by: engineeringmechanix2 | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 21:51
Hi, is there a source link to this? would really like to take a look. thanks
Posted by: John | Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 20:18