Switching video to full screen is slow

0asdf

@Pesala For me it varies sometimes.
In the best case it's just that "two stage" process that takes 1-1.5 seconds for entering and leaving fullscreen.
But sometimes the CPU and memory usage seem to be higher than before when entering fullscreen, especially after watching for a while. Then each of the stages just takes longer and they feel more like 3-5 stages, and the whole process takes like 2-3 seconds or so. It just feels very sluggish then, while the rest of the browser and other tabs work normally.

This even happens when I clear all browsing data and don't have any other tabs open, and nothing demanding going on in the background. And my PC should definitely be able to handle this, like I said the rest of the browser works fine, for example having many tabs open.

seeley

I remember back when youtube switched from Flash to HTML5 video, that's when it became jerky in going full screen.

Pathduck

@neonturbo said in youtube full screen issue:

It is unique to Vivaldi.

It is not. Opera does the same thing. Firefox is definitely a bit smoother, but also slyly (like a true fox) hides it by dimming the screen so it looks smoother.

Old Edge is even more stuttery but that's to be expected I guess.

nicolasdominique

For some time I'm having a problem which seems to be Chromium related issue. It's not very disruptive, but surely it's annoying.

Simply every time I'm watching a video on YT and I want to turn Full Screen on, the video stutters and lags for few seconds, before turning on. I tried using the most common "fixes" (like keeping the browser updated, turning off hardware acceleration, etc.), but nothing really helped. And so far the only browser which doesn't have that issue is Firefox.

LonM

@nicolasdominique If it is chromium related then that's not good, but the Vivaldi team may be limited in what they can do to fix it. One thing I have noticed with vivaldi is that turning off animation can sometimes help speed things up.

Turning off hardware acceleration is unlikely to help in this case and will probably make things worse - that's usually only recommended if you end up not seeing anything at all.

0asdf

Not sure if it's the same issue, but there are a few topics about this, the one with the most recent replies is this: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/38509/youtube-full-screen-issue.

nicolasdominique

@0asdf said in Youtube full screen lag:

Not sure if it's the same issue, but there are a few topics about this, the one with the most recent replies is this: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/38509/youtube-full-screen-issue.

Believe me, at first I used Search to seek for my issue, but I never saw this thread you posted. Yes, it's the same issue, but sadly, as you can see, no one could resolve it in ages.

nemesi

how can I have a smoother animation when passing to fullscreen? more like firefox does if u know what I mean. Are there flags to change?

Pesala

@nemesi I don’t think there is anything that you can do to fix it (Settings, Webpages, Hardware acceleration is probably already enabled unless you had to disable it to solve another issue).

The problem is due to the way that Vivaldi codes its interface over the Chromium rendering engine. The developers are aware of the problem, but there is only so much that they can do.

Pathduck

This slower "stepped" animation when going fullscreen started with changes made specifically by Youtube pretty recently. Other sites like for example Vimeo are not slow like this.

Yes, Firefox is definitely smoother, but it also "cheats" darkening the screen when doing it so it looks smoother. Opera has the same slowness, so maybe it's a general Chromium issue.

Komposten

@Pathduck said in fullscreen smoother animation:

This slower "stepped" animation when going fullscreen started with changes made specifically by Youtube pretty recently.

I'm fairly confident that I've had this stepped animation on YouTube for years.

Pathduck

@Komposten I don't know, it seems to come and go. Some versions of Vivaldi seem smooth, then a new release makes it slow again.

But the thing where it seems to show the YT search for a bit before going full-screen is I think something new. Might be wrong though, just feel I've noticed it only lately.

I found this YT-proxy site, transition to FS there is much faster.
https://toogl.es/#/view/bON-KPiiNCk
So definitely something with how the YT site itself is coded, and probably Chromium/Chrome does not handle it well. Which is strange, considering YT is Google ... sheesh

Basically, almost any site with YT embeds has faster fullscreen than on YT itself

And like I said above, Vimeo is silky smooth:
https://vimeo.com/314899920

Komposten

@Pathduck YouTube introduced the option to scroll down to the comments while in fullscreen a while ago (can't remember when, but sometime last year). When you scroll down the search bar appears at the top, so this might be where the search bar comes from when going fullscreen.

Both the embedded YouTube video and Vimeo also goes fullscreen in a stepped fashion for me, but much faster than on YouTube. Vimeo is clearly the winner, with the stepping being so fast it almost isn't there.

iAN CooG

For whats it's worth, the transition and redraw of the window while switching from/to fullscreen got drastically slow and noticeable also in my Windows7 32bit since Vivaldi 3.0, noticeable on both Youtube and Twitch. I don't consider it a biggie for me since I don't need to switch many times, once in full screen it remains so until I finished watching.

0asdf

You are not the only one. There are a bunch of topics and user reports about this:

hackasaur

when I select fullscreen mode on YouTube in Vivaldi it becomes larger in steps takes about 3 seconds. It works fine with Vimeo. YouTube normal-fullscreen transition works good in chrome on my computer. I was having the same problem in Ubuntu.

Pesala

@hackasaur It is a known issue.

mib2berlin

@hackasaur
Hi, I have the same on Chrome on Linux but more 0.5 seconds for the 3 steps.
Cant check on Windows at moment.

Cheers, mib

0asdf

As Pesala pointed out, others have this issue too and there doesn't seem to be a fix yet. Some related topics:

I can't recall whether this was properly submitted as a bug yet and if the devs are aware of it.

Here is what it often looks like for me, especially exiting full screen is laggy: https://pictshare.net/m9duau.mp4. It can also become worse (more laggy, slower) than this.

It doesn't even seem to be directly about the video going full screen, but rather about Vivaldi's full screen mode (which is part of the process when making a video go full screen), because the same kind of lag happens when I'm activating just that view (default: F11) on sites like YouTube, Twitch or Vimeo (without making the video full screen). This video shows it: https://pictshare.net/10r68p.mp4.

Once Vivaldi is in full screen mode like this, switching the video to full screen does not lag anymore, then it's just one step. That's what it should always look and feel like.

Vivaldi version: Vivaldi 3.0.1874.38 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
OS: Windows 10 OS Version 1909 (Build 18363.836)

mib2berlin

@0asdf
Hi, as I mention in my post it is the same on Chrome and Edge(ium), Edge need two steps, on Windows 10 Pro 2004 (was the same on 1909).
I have no time to search in the Chromium bug tracker but I guess there are reports, too.

Cheers, mib