Set the start time of a YouTube Video
Lets say you are watching an interesting 10 min video in YouTube and you would like to share it with a friend. An important part in the video starts at 6′th minute and 10′th second.
It was not possible untill recently to start the video at a specified time. The user had to wait till the 6′th minute and 10′th second then watch the video. But now with a small tweak in the URL [eg.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDEFG] you can change it to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDEFG#t=6m30s
and that will start the video at 6 min 30 sec. This is a very small tweak but very very useful.
Let’s examine closely what extra # we typed does
t= time, m=minutes, s=seconds. So if I type #t=6m30s it means 6th minute and 30′th second ; the video will start exactly at the time specified.
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May 13th, 2009
very useful for viewing specifc portion of youtube videos as well.
April 6th, 2010
This does not work while launching the video from an iPhone: any idea on how to fix this problem?
Thanks!