Full screen video not full screen

Hey hilandzs,

The videos that are not available in full screen format and have black line strips up and down cannot be viewed in a full screen mode (it would therefore take out those black line strips and making the animated part of the video cut a bit on its right and left). Well, at least not on iTunes or an iPod.
It can be done on DVD players, though.

Vincent

Hey hilandzs,

The videos that are not available in full screen format and have black line strips up and down cannot be viewed in a full screen mode (it would therefore take out those black line strips and making the animated part of the video cut a bit on its right and left). Well, at least not on iTunes or an iPod.
It can be done on DVD players, though.

Vincent

I have the same problem. Workaround is to quit using itunes and use QT. Find the location of the video (tv shows, movies, etc.) in your tunes itunes library folder and open it in QT. Then use Full Screen to view it. It should work.

It's pretty irritating to have to do this.

I have just started experiencing the same problem. One day it plays full screen, the next it doesn't and hasn't since. When using QT, it works fine. However, I don't think that it is unfair to expect iTunes to show full screen when it has always done so in the past. A work-around with QT is not a solution to the iTunes problem. I agree that it is irritating. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

to hilandzs and all if wanting to play videos, movies etc in itunes so that they FILL the screen , then go into system preferences - displays - resolution - and click on 1024 x 768 stretch ( i use 15.4 inch macbook pro and this works for me ) it may be another setting for other size monitors.
Or the media player VLC has an option were you can choose the aspect ratio and this will FILL the screen again for me it was 16:10 aspect but this may vary. The aspect ratio option in this player is Excellent and should be a standard feature on all players.

I believe this may work for you as it did for me. When the screen is maximized (FULLSCREEN), press the 'CTRL' key and the '1' key for postage stamp size or the 'CTRL' key and the '2' key for full mode. This problem wasted a couple of hours last night but thank GOD it's working now.

Take care! I wish they had a users manual for stuff like this!!!!

Message was edited by: labrat.not.included

Well, I had the same problem for a while (weeks) but decided to ignore it. I finally snapped today, and discovered a solution.

After entering full-screen mode, press command-3. This enables "Fit-to-Screen" from the view menu. This setting is sticky; selecting another video or switching from full-screen to windowed and back works fine.

Apple, why did this functionality change? Personally, the whole point of full-screen mode is to see a video FULL SCREEN, even if this causes a loss of detail.

osx 10.5.2, itunes 7.6.1

I've got the same problem too. Any word on fixes? I'd really rather not uninstall and reinstall iTunes and lose all my play counts...

I am having the SAME problem it's infuriating.

😟

When anyone has a fix please say...

Tim

Me too. Yesterday I could watch a video in full screen. Today it's a postage stamp.

I tried to watch the movie I rented in Quicktime, but it didn't display. Only gray.

Not acceptable.

Thanks for the solution. My first Mac workaround (my unwavering conviction in the robust world of Mac suffers its first dent)