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    Why is there a white strip at the top of youtube video in full screen?

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    • joklok
      joklok @Guest last edited by

      Hm... never knew it was an Opera only problem, always thought it was some kind of "glitch" from the upper panel on my XFCE desktop 😉

      But I just tested it with Firefox and there is no white strip in full screen mode...

      My current Opera version:
      75.0.3969.171

      And it's not a youtube only problem, also happens with videos from other sites.

      Update:

      The white strip is also visible on full screen mode via F11, when the webpage has a dark background, e.g.:

      doihaveinternet.com

      So, it doesn't seem to be a video problem...

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      • tetraguy
        tetraguy @joklok last edited by

        @joklok you are correct! white stripe appears even on full screen mode of web page.

        i suppose to think, thats an opera for linux window manager using problem...
        i dont use my linux for often needs, but its really stays annoying for me that white stripe! i think that if my laptop had a white design plastic, it souldnt be so annoying, but... it doesnt.
        i dont like to think that i have to change my favourite browser for anything else, but my migration to linux stopped because of that white stripe.
        its been a long time since i've posted my first message to this post... too much. its a pitty that we still dont have any comments on that glitch from developers...

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        • joklok
          joklok @tetraguy last edited by

          @tetraguy hm... yeah, it's somehow sad.

          But for full-screen-applications I use since a while just mpv-player, it has an inbuild youtube-dl which allows you to watch also video streams, without the strip in full-screen mode 😉

          Recently Opera got more resource hungry while playing videos, so sometimes the videos with higher resolution start lagging, that's also why I use the mpv-player, runs smooth for that. My laptop is rather old, but those videos doesn't seem to lag in e.g. Firefox, so I hope they will fix that sometime.


          Maybe we as a community could test this a bit further, regarding the window-manager:

          I use XFCE with X11 and get the white strip.

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          • d216
            d216 last edited by

            Hello!
            I have the same problems for very long time on several machines on Xubuntu 18.04.
            Current Opera release I use is 76.0.4017.154, but problem appeared somewhere on 65-67 I think. Neither Firefox nor Chromuim is affected.

            Here is screenshot in two variations: original and with black outline to make problem more clear:
            Снимок экрана_2021-05-29_22-12-42.png
            Снимок экрана_2021-05-29_22-12-42_bg.png

            Please help, this line is so annoying 🙂

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            • rejuvenator
              rejuvenator @d216 last edited by

              @d216 In case they don't fix it (which doesn't seem like they will), I recommend Vivaldi 🙂

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              • MaximB
                MaximB last edited by leocg

                Hello,
                Not sure if it's Linux specific but when I watch Youtube videos at full screen, there is a very narrow with line on the top of the video (above the video name, across the whole screen).

                See example:
                https://ibb.co/kq0RWq8

                I tested in Chrome and Firefox, and had no such issue.

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                • MaximB
                  MaximB last edited by

                  I see this issue is old and still wasn't resolved
                  https://forums.opera.com/topic/38628/why-is-there-a-white-strip-at-the-top-of-youtube-video-in-full-screen/21

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by This post is deleted!
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                    • tetraguy
                      tetraguy @MaximB last edited by

                      @maximb yeap. We still have no any idea what is going on and why opera software don't care about this issue on linux.

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                      • d216
                        d216 last edited by d216

                        I've submitted bug report to Opera's bug tracking system. BS-12308
                        Let's see what they'll say

                        @rejuvenator Thanks for advice, maybe I'll try it in the near future 🙂

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                        • tetraguy
                          tetraguy @d216 last edited by

                          @d216 great job! thx!

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                          • leocg
                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @d216 last edited by

                            @d216 They won't say nothing, most probably. In fact there is a high chance that it will just be marked as a duplicate.

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                            • minho
                              minho last edited by

                              Same bug with Opera 77.0.4054.277 and Opera 78.0.4093.103 beta on Arch Linux running Wayland session of Gnome 40.2.0.

                              Chromium, Vivaldi and Firefox installed on the same system
                              do not have this bug.

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                              • argesever
                                argesever last edited by

                                Hi,

                                I disabled "Use hardware acceleration when available" under Settings/Advanced/System and was able to get rid of that white strip 🙂 I haven't checked yet if disabling hw acceleration causes slow performance when surfing.

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                                • tetraguy
                                  tetraguy @argesever last edited by

                                  @argesever nope, that doesnt work for me. opera ver 78.0.4093.147

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                                  • Cove8
                                    Cove8 last edited by

                                    What worked for me was simply going to display settings, change the resolution of your monitor to whichever option, and then hit revert. Hope this helps 🙂

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                                    • minho
                                      minho last edited by

                                      This bug affects even Opera 83.0.4254.54 running natively on Wayland on Gnome and KDE Plasma. Is Opera developers aware of this old bug?

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                                      • Joshua-Plays
                                        Joshua-Plays @Guest last edited by

                                        @mrvoltz Its not only on Linux its also on Windows 10

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                                        • pindos
                                          pindos @Joshua-Plays last edited by

                                          @joshua-plays I have no white strip in Opera's fullscreen on my Windows10 machine.

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                                          • tetraguy
                                            tetraguy @pindos last edited by

                                            @pindos i dont have such problem on my win 10 desktop and other windows devices

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