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Can I control whether or not to use multi-window?

In Playstore, some apps have introduction videos. For example, Jump Desktop. When I pressed the play button, multi-window was activated and the video was played on the right window. In this case, I would rather had the video being played full-screen. Can we do that without manually adjusting the size of the window?

petercohen said:
In Playstore, some apps have introduction videos. For example, Jump Desktop. When I pressed the play button, multi-window was activated and the video was played on the right window. In this case, I would rather had the video being played full-screen. Can we do that without manually adjusting the size of the window?
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Go to: Settings - Device - Multi window, and disable "Open in multiwindow view"
After that you can still use multi window, but those windows are not open automatically.

Also while in there you may want go to notification panel settings and make sure that the multi window toggle is in the quick settings panel rather than the available buttons section. That way you can toggle easily by bringing the notification shade down and panning left or right to find the toggle for times when you want to disable it altogether.
I usually keep the open in window on and use the toggle. I'm less annoyed by the feature i guess. I like it in play store when opening video samples of applications where while playing the developer's video I can read reviews or other info.
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Sometimes I like to use the device in portrait mode. When I clicked on an introduction video from Play Store, a 2nd window was opened but the orientation of the video was in landscape mode. I had to rotate the device to watch the video. How come the video's orientation was not adjusted accordingly based on the orientation of the device?

Yeah there is no way to control that. I think the way samsung coded the launch action it doesn't check for orientation and adjust accordingly.

Is there a way to make suggestions to Samsung App developers?

[Q][Resolved] Can we move the picture up to the top of screen?

I suggest we add a feature to allow users to move the vedio picture to the top of the screen so that there won't be any black space on the top and subtitles can be displayed totally outside the picture in the lower black space. This is especially helpful when subtitles have two or more lines.
This feature can be found on desktop version of kmplayer, PotPlayer and a few other mainstream players.

karl.jiachao.shen said:
I suggest we add a feature to allow users to move the vedio picture to the top of the screen so that there won't be any black space on the top and subtitles can be displayed totally outside the picture in the lower black space. This is especially helpful when subtitles have two or more lines.
This feature can be found on desktop version of kmplayer, PotPlayer and a few other mainstream players.
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If you are taking about bottom padding, it is not possible. But, moving the video is still possible. Goto Settings | Player | Touch Controls & enable Video pan
Now use two fingers together to move video screen in any direction.

Is there a horizontal screen flip app?

I have a DIY smartphone projector and the lens flips the image up-side-down. The only available solution is to use a screen rotation lock so that the phone is upside down. The image, however is still horizontally flipped so you can't read text. I can't find an app that horizontally flips screens, but I know there is a video converter app that does this to videos. The problem with that is I'd need to download each video and convert it and then play it.
So my final question is:
Do you know of any screen flipping app or a video player (Like VLC or MX) that has the ability to play videos flipped? (Or if you know any other fix, let me know)

Maybe add a mirror to the DIY projector?
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Full screen video player

How do you watch things like BBC iPlayer in full screen?in YouTube there's a button to crop video and it's fills the screen but nothing for BBC,itv ect even with full screen apps button toggled for each app.

Full screen apps puts the app itself into fullscreen mode but it that won't effect how the app handles video playback. They're likely set to fill the video to screen, not crop the top and bottom to fit an unusual aspect ratio. Remember that most phones before this were standard 16:9 so this was never an issue previously. There's no way to do what you're asking yet AFAIK. It will either have to be enabled in the app itself (such as YouTube) or introduced into a future S8 update. Always the possibility of a root option down the road as well if Xposed ever comes to the S8.

simonhcai said:
How do you watch things like BBC iPlayer in full screen?in YouTube there's a button to crop video and it's fills the screen but nothing for BBC,itv ect even with full screen apps button toggled for each app.
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xeathpk said:
Full screen apps puts the app itself into fullscreen mode but it that won't effect how the app handles video playback. They're likely set to fill the video to screen, not crop the top and bottom to fit an unusual aspect ratio. Remember that most phones before this were standard 16:9 so this was never an issue previously. There's no way to do what you're asking yet AFAIK. It will either have to be enabled in the app itself (such as YouTube) or introduced into a future S8 update. Always the possibility of a root option down the road as well if Xposed ever comes to the S8.
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It's a joke there's a huge screen but no way to watch third part y tv apps full screen,I normally do root ect but I bought phone with option to change for free after 12 months so root will mess that up.

simonhcai said:
It's a joke there's a huge screen but no way to watch third part y tv apps full screen,I normally do root ect but I bought phone with option to change for free after 12 months so root will mess that up.
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DW mate, give it a couple more months and I'm sure that you'll forget that this was even an issue. App developers will presumably pick up the slack over that time, some apps are already starting to adapt to the longer screens of the S8 and LG G6.
Its poor third party apps without any video aspect ratio or video fit/crop/stretch options that are the issue. Most 3rd part developers assumed that their apps would only ever be used on standard 16:9 phones or similar.
And you can't really blame the phone for being 18.5:9 aspect ratio, its all about personal preference and some people like myself prefer the longer screen, even knowing that some content may never fit the screen how you'd like it. Although, for those times that you CAN utilize the full real estate of this beautiful screen makes it more than worth it in my eyes.

Full Screen Video I'm Gallery

Anyone know how to enable full screen in Gallery? If I download a video or record a video in landscape, I cannot seem to find a way to enable full screen upon playback.
Yes, it's possible with a 3rd party video app but I'd prefer this be an option that is available by default.
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greystealth said:
Anyone know how to enable full screen in Gallery? If I download a video or record a video in landscape, I cannot seem to find a way to enable full screen upon playback.
Yes, it's possible with a 3rd party video app but I'd prefer this be an option that is available by default.
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Not I could find, none for Quickpic either. XPlayer Pro has the full screen button and then remember aspect ratio in settings.

Rooted. GravityBox. Immersive Mode.