YouTube horrible resolution in fullscreen

Question

I have had this issue with Chrome and YouTube playing videos in a horrible resolution when i switch to fullscreen. My host OS screen resolution is 1920x1080. But flash player often goes down to 640x480 when i switch to fullscreen. When i test this in other browsers (Firefox, IE and Safari): It works all fine.

My specs are:

• CPU: Intel Core I7: 950 @ 3.07 GHz
• Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 (4048 MB video memory)
• RAM: 24 GB (Kingston - Don't remember exact model)
• Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
• OS: Windows 7 (Version 6.1 - Build 7601)

I run the latest version of Chrome and flash plugin. I have tried re-installing Chrome 2 times already with no luck. I also re-installed my Windows a few weeks ago. I had the same issue before i re-installed.

If there is any more information you need: Be sure to ask and ill provide it right away.

Solution 1

I know this is old but it's the first entry on google so I'll tell you my solution to this problem. I already had this happening quite often and it's really annoying. What worked for me is:

1. right click the video
2. go to settings
3. enable hardware acceleration
4. reload the page.

Many people say to uncheck the hardware acceleration but for me this worked.

Solution 2

Just a wild guess to try, but visit https://www.youtube.com/html5 and request HTML5 player to be used with your browser (just a click of a button), and see if it helps?

Comments

[Outdated Computer Tech]

make sure your google chrome is up-to-date.

[Alexander Johansen]

@Sickest Added more details about this above.

[pabouk - Ukraine stay strong]

Rather a possibly working workaround than a guess :) I guess that there is a high probability that this would help.

[Alexander Johansen]

Does not work. When i use the HTML5 player: It does the same thing. The playback controls are proper sized. But the video canvas is still low resolution.

[Alexander Johansen]

Triple-checked that i got all the latest versions. I do have all the latest versions of Flash, Chrome and General drivers. I also unchecked hardware acceleration and restarted the OS. Problem is still there...