FullScreen button not showing up in YouTube videos

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  lifegodandtheuniverse · Member · Apr 23, 2014 at 4:47 pm

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  My WordPress-hosted web site is LifeGodAndTheUniverse.com. In a post, I have an embedded video specified as follows:

  [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0hkk28Mo8Q&w=320&h=180;modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&fs=1&controls=0& allowfullscreen=true]

  This code had been working properly for months. Now I noticed that the “FullScreen” button no longer shows up in the lower right corner of the video box. I am now forced to click on the YouTube button in order to put the video into full screen mode.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  apokalyptik · Staff · Apr 28, 2014 at 7:08 pm

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  Hello,

  When I visit your site, and play the video on the front page I do see, and can use, the box outline in the player (bottom right) that switches playback to full screen mode. Does this work for you now, or is it still missing when you view it on your end?

  Cheers!
  DK

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  lifegodandtheuniverse · Member · Apr 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm

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  You can’t go by the video on the front page. That works properly. The code for that looks like the following:

  
  [gigya src="https://www.youtube.com/v/iNS29g5K6Cs" flashvars="rel=0&autoplay=1&loop=0&wmode=opaque" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="620" height="349"]
  

  The problem is on my blog videos. You’ll see code that looks like the following:

  [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0hkk28Mo8Q&w=320&h=180;modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&fs=1&controls=0& allowfullscreen=true]

  If I use Chrome, the fullscreen button doesn’t show up (… though it use to). If I use IE, the fullscreen button does show up.

  I heard a rumor that this has something to do with some HTML5 trial.

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  apokalyptik · Staff · Apr 29, 2014 at 6:01 pm

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  Thanks for the clarification. It looks like, for Chrome at least, the HTML5 player is being used (for me logged in or logged out) whereas other browsers (Safari, for example) use the flash youtube player. After some googling it appears that the HTML5 player doesn’t support that button for embeds. It was unclear in my googling whether that was on purpose, or a bug, or if anything was being done about it by the makers of the HTML5 player (Google.)

  DK

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  lifegodandtheuniverse · Member · Apr 29, 2014 at 6:23 pm

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  So what is it I’m suppose to do here? This use to work. I’ve made no changes.

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  apokalyptik · Staff · Apr 29, 2014 at 8:40 pm

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  Unfortunately as far as I’m able to tell we’ve not changed anything here either. The player that is ultimately served up to users comes from Google, and is subject to their changes and desires. The parameter is being passed, it’s just not being noticed or honored by the player. So for users being served up the HTML5 version of the youtube player it simply won’t have the fullscreen button until Google adds it [back] in.