Nice TIP: Specify The Start Position In A Youtube URL

[Rudi]

Have you ever copied a YouTube URL, pasted it into an email message or twitter comment, and sent it to someone? If so, have you also found yourself explaining to the recipient that they'll need to skip forward to 2 minutes and 10 seconds for the good bit to start? If so, here's a really handy tip which needs no extra software and which works with all browsers.

Once you've copied the YouTube URL for the video you want, just add the required start time on the end, using the special format. For 2 minutes and 10 seconds you'd add #t=2m10s as shown in the screen shot below. If you don't specify m and s separately, YouTube defaults to seconds. So in the example here, #t=130 would achieve the same effect.

To illustrate, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT_I_GV_oEM#t=2m10s shows one particularly cute puppy within a compilation video.

[HansV]

Thanks, Rudi.

[Argus]

I use it frequently, and have for many years. Even if not including it in an e-mail (but as you mention, it's very convenient then) it can be of great use, in forums such as this. Used it, for example, here.

And I do not add anything to the URL, I just right-click on the clip.

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Then I get this in the clipboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... SXbo#t=134" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Rudi]

Also a nice tip Argus. So basically, if you pause the playback of the video at the point when you want it to play (in your link), right clicking on the video will write the time (in seconds) into the link automatically...

[Rudi]

A few months ago I queried how to make a link to a video on YouTube that will play it in full screen mode, or cinema mode. BobH always posted links where the video plays in full screen. Can you remind me how to structure a YouTube link that defaults to these play modes please. I can then use this thread as a reference to both options.

TX.

[HansV]

From Post=136109:

A standard YouTube URL looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYwGrVir9lY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
To display the same video fullscreen, you can use http://www.youtube.com/v/TYwGrVir9lY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or http://www.youtube.com/embed/TYwGrVir9lY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
To display it fullscreen and make it run automatically: http://www.youtube.com/v/TYwGrVir9lY?autoplay=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or http://www.youtube.com/embed/TYwGrVir9lY?autoplay=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Rudi]

TX.