March 30, 2009

YouTube Videos -- Deep Linking

Thanks to Jon Leslie, AV Technician, MediaTech, for submitting this post

Using a YouTube feature called Deep Links, it's easy to start watching YouTube videos at any point that you specify. To do so, just add to the end of the web address (URL) the minute and second where you want the video to begin playing. The format you must use looks like this: #t=2m27s

Here's an example:
Ordinarily, YouTube starts at the beginning of the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM

However, this URL starts at "2 minutes 27 seconds":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM#t=2m27s

You can, of course, change the minute/second values as needed.

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