Comments on: Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp

By: Cymnbaoth Boru

Cymnbaoth Boru — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:47:38 +0000

This is extremely useful for the multiple hour youtube videos, if you want to come back to the same spot you left off at. Thank you so much for this little how to.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:17:05 +0000

Hi.

I have tried to apply this technique on an SWF video file. But i found out that it doesn’t work. Is there a specific “tag” I can use on embedded SWF video files?

Thanks.

Jack

By: Andrew Mooers

Andrew Mooers — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:59:23 +0000

The suggestion of blend of videos and rotation just means editing the loops to create the experience you want. Editing with video software is not as steep a curve as some think. The beauty of video is you have the eyeballs and eardrums to make a deep impression. A pair of senses always trump just one.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:33:14 +0000

Is there any way to get the thumbnail/still view (which shows before the video is played) to be at the beginning of the timestamp, rather than at the beginning of the video?

By: Brittany

Brittany — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:48:21 +0000

@ Troy – this website worked for me: http://splicd.com

I was able to enter a start and stop time for my YouTube video.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:54:48 +0000

As for adding a STOP parameter: There is this website http://www.splicd.com , that let’s you enter a YouTube URL, a start and a stop time, and then it generates a unique link for you to a ‘chopped’ version of the video. But the link you get looks like http://splicd.com/… , so you can’t really tell, what they did to make the video stop at the desired time. Anyone any idea?

By: Kumar

Kumar — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:03:27 +0000

Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp.
By giving a value such as start=10 you could skip the ad (your video will start in 10seconds) that show in the begining.
I was wondering how to implement the start=nn for various songs embedded through a playlist.

By: Linda Darby

Linda Darby — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:44:18 +0000

I had been thinking of something like this for a while but was too lazy to investigate. Glad I happened to run across this useful technique while religiously reading your blog, Matt. Thanks.

By: Encinitas Homes

Encinitas Homes — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:42:37 +0000

Wow! This would be great! I just hired a company to make videos showing my properties that I have for sale and I really didn’t like some of the information they put at the beginning. I wanted to just skip to a view of the house and not my name first which they did. Since they have no way of going back and fixing the videos, I’ll forward them this idea to see if we can just start them a few seconds into the videos for my blog. Thanks so much for the helpful tip!

By: Tyler Williamson

Tyler Williamson — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:30:32 +0000

It’s the neat, cool little tips and tricks like this that you deliver us that set the blogs and sites of those of us who follow your stuff apart from those who don’t. Great stuff.