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
35 Answers
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 :) :)
1Disable 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.
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
a post on the google chrome help forum suggests that resetting the browser zoom (Ctrl+0) works around this problem.
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.
