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Author Topic: URL for Youtube Video to Start at Particular Time (and other tips?)  (Read 5,555 times)

ewemoa

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Found the following (old!) tip handy:

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3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part

Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

via:

  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-youtube-url-tricks-you-should-know-about/

FWIW, the collection is from some years back -- and some of the comments suggest that some of the tips no longer work.



As an example of how this might be useful...

The following set of links show a sequence of design diagrams for the Yamba Android sample example application covered in the Android Bootcamp video series:


Didn't figure out how to not have the video automatically start playing though...

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Nice set of tips on that makeuseof page.

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