Friday, December 09, 2011

Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp

Updated May 2014
You can add a start parameter to the embed code that YouTube generates for you.

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Iq0XJCJ1Srw?rel=0&amp;start=56" width="560"></iframe>


Updated Apr 2013
https://yousufrafi.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/start-a-youtube-video-at-a-certain-timestamp/



From 2011
From https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/start-youtube-video-minutes-seconds/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tMuSVVljg8#t=17m08s

The “#t=17m08s” takes you to 17 minutes and 8 seconds in a video.

Embedded code.
<object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/8tMuSVVljg8&hl=en_US&start=1028"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/8tMuSVVljg8&hl=en_US&start=1028" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
See here for the example working.

This guide gives some other good pointers, "The default (and recommended) embed size is 480x385 for a 4:3 video and 640x385 for 16:9 content."

Here is an example of using 640x385 for 4:3 video.



2 comments:

Shahana Shafiuddin said...

What do you mean by embedded YouTube video?

Richard Alger said...

You can view a YouTube video by going to the web address (or URL) of the video.

Or you can see it embedded in the web page of another site. To Embed a video in your site, or in this case a blog post you have to edit your post in the HTML view. Then use the code I used to embed the YouTube video in the blog post.

Embedding does not only apply to YouTube. There are all sorts of items that can be embedded in a web page. See this definition of embed.