YouTube, Broadcast YourselfOccassionally I embed the odd YouTube video into a post. Most recently I embedded one into the post Flow Nuts Bang!!! however, for this particular video, I wanted to start it from a certain point in time.

YouTube offers Deep Links where you can link to a specific time of a video by adding a ‘t hash’ anchor to the end of the YouTube URL and specifying the time position in minutes and seconds.

For instance, if you wanted to start video playback at the 1 minute and 28 second mark you would need to append the following ‘t hash’ anchor to the YouTube URL: #t=1m28s.

Here is an example with a complete YouTube URL that starts at 20 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SykE7I0b-M#t=0m20s

However, the ‘t hash’ method does not work for embedded YouTube videos. As generally all my vids are embedded this was the cause for some minor frustration and, upon finding the solution, was prompted to write this post (which probably everyone already knows this and it is just me who is slow).

If you embed a YouTube video into a post and you wish to start the video from a certain point in time rather than adding the ‘t hash’ anchor you need to add a ‘start’ attribute to the YouTube URL in both the ‘param’ tag and the ‘embed’ tag instead. The value of ‘start’ is specified in seconds.

For instance, if you wanted to start video playback at the 1 minute and 28 second mark you would need to add the following ‘start’ attribute to the YouTube URL: &start=88.

Here is an example with the complete HTML mark-up that starts the embedded YouTube video at 20 seconds:

<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_SykE7I0b-M&hl=en&fs=1&start=20“></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_SykE7I0b-M&hl=en&fs=1&start=20” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>

Hope this helps. If not, I am sure that I will forget by the time I need to embed a YouTube vid again with a fixed starting point so will be a useful reference for me at that time.

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