• YouTube full-screen video playback bad


    Perplexer
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    Maxthon 4.9.3.1000

    I noticed that YouTube videos playing full-screen in HD (720p or 1080p) are all jittery with missing frames and slightly desynced audio/video, in other words, playback is not smooth (HTML5). I tried vasrious older versions like 4.9.2.1000 and 4.9.1.1000 (portable editions) and those have the same problem with YouTube. I tried Firefox and of course, that one worked perfectly.

    I then turned on Retro Mode and that seems to have helped.

    So, is Ultra Mode broken for full-screen YouTube HD playback in 4.9 Maxthon branch ?


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    It does play in fullscreen-mode but isn't as SMOOTH as in windowed-mode. You can see it being slightly jerky. I have tested it on 2 different Windows 7 computers with different ATI graphics cards and the problem is present on both PCs. Again, Firefox works good. Maybe it's something that is specific to the two computers I tested on but since Firefox works fine, that means Maxthnon could too, if it was fixed.

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    But if no one else can duplicate your problem, it is more than likely one of your settings.  Throughout the entire video in full screen I experienced no symptoms like those you are describing.  The video playes flawlessly.

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    It looks like the newest Maxthon 4.9.3.1000 kind of doesn't "lock-in" the full-screen mode. When you go to full-screen mode in YouTube, the taskbar is still visible. So it seems like Maxthon doesn't enter full-screen mode properly and that is why it doesn't play smoothly.

    I have uninstalled MX 4.9.3.1000 and installed the old MX 4.4.3.1000 and that version works good in full-screen.

    So there is definitely a bug with this in the current 4.9.3.1000 version. Maybe this bug only appears on some computers (in my case on 2 different Windows 7 computers) but the fact is, it is a bug. I just hope they fix it since this is one bug I really can't live with.

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    OK, I think I have found out what is causing the problem.

    On Windows 7 you can personalize your computer / desktop with different "Themes". There are "Aero themes" and "Basic and High Contrast Themes" available in Control Panel -> Personalization.

    I personally use "Windows Classic" theme which is a part of "Basic and High Contrast Themes". In this theme (and other "Basic and High Contrast Themes") Maxthon 4.9.3.1000 does NOT work good in full-screen video playback.

    But if I select any theme from "Aero Themes", then MX 4.9.3.1000 will work OK in full-screen video playback.

    I don't know if Windows 10 has similar themes but in Windows 7 this is how it is. So apparently MX 4.9 series has changed something so that it doesn't work correctly with non-Aero themes in Windows 7 !

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