How to share a youtube video fullscreen

It’s easy enough to click the full screen mode on a video but what if you would like to share a video already viewable in the large size? Perhaps you want to embed a link on your web site that doesn’t show all the other youtube clutter? You just want the video to take over the view. Not sure why youtube has hidden this but for now the solution below seems to work.

The URL for a video you find on youtube for example looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eHPrT_Wjo

This is just going to show you something that looks like this:

Screen Shot 2015-06-24 at 11.34.57 AM

The trick to get full screen is to delete “watch?v=” and replace that with “v/

Below is the changed web link. Copy and paste the link below in the browser to test!

https://www.youtube.com/v/r0eHPrT_Wjo

 

One thought on “How to share a youtube video fullscreen

  • June 25, 2015 at 7:42 am
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    How did you discover this?
    Neat trick to know…Thank You!

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