[mythtv-users] mythnetvision and flash full screen videos

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/20/2014 03:27 PM, Oliver Kühn wrote:
> i discovered a strange behavior of watching flash full screen videos 
> in mythtv.
>
> using mythnetvision to search and watch internet videos is working 
> fine for search scripts like 'Movie Trailers' or 'BBC iPlayer'. 
> mythbrowser is beeing displayed and the flash video gets played.
> But for search scripts which are using adobe flash in full screen like 
> 'YouTube' or 'Dailymotion' there is only sound, but no video. it seems 
> that the fullscreen flash video is played behind mythfrontend. and 
> when i press ESC mythfrontend crashes.
>
> however, by accident i discovered a strange workaround: when i'm 
> connected via VNC (x11vnc) in parallel to my TV the full screen flash 
> video is working!
>
> does anybody else has some issues with watching flash full screen in 
> mythtv? or probably any solution for this?
>
> i'm using mythtv 0.27/fixes on fedora 20 x64 with latest 
> flash-plugin-11.2.202.335-release.x86_64

Almost definitely a problem/misconfiguration of your Window Manager (or 
lack thereof).

Mike