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Problem with Adobe Flash Player. Big "Bar" appearing on the side of screen. Please help!?
I am borrowing my friends laptop and flash works fine but whenever i full screen there is an empty bar on the side that takes up approx 10%(about an inch) of the screen. I tested this on several different type of video players such as YouTube, Megavideo, Up2 Player, Facebook video player and Myspace player, all of it has the bar. Essentially it is shifting the whole video about an inch to the left leaving the right side of the screen to have an empty white bar.
Also, if I don't full screen the video the video appears as normal, the problem is that when I full screen it it the bar appears.
In addition, the video itself is uploaded as a widescreen video but when I full screen it it changes from widescreen to taking up all of the screen(except for the annoying bar); when it should in fact still be widescreen during full screen mode.
Please help if you have any idea what I'm trying to explain...sorry it's kind of confusing.
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- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
I would really like to know the solution to this problem as well. I just purchased a new hp laptop and in every web media player that I try to run has the same effect as described above. I think it has to do with the scaling that the display driver is overriding for all web media.
Turning off "hardware acceleration" in Flash Player by right-clicking on the video and unchecking the setting in the menu might fix your problem.
However, this option won't work for Silverlight, so I still face this problem when I try to watch Netflix.
Updating the drivers does nothing, the problem persists. I'm probably going to just send back the comp; glitches and malfunctions in a brand new product is less than encouraging. If anyone knows of a comprehensive solution that doesn't involve disabling hardware acceleration altogether, I would love to hear it. The comp is hp Pavilion dv6t (and I think the problem lies in the "Intel Graphics and Media Control Panel" proprietary drivers that shipped with the model)