Link to a specific time in YouTube video

by Amit Verma on November 1, 2008

in Feature,Video

Do you feel helpless when you want to send a YouTube video link to someone and want that video to start from a specific time?

There is a solution available now which is called deep link. Append the YouTube video url with something like #t=1m18s. Here it means that the video will start from the time 1min 18sec. You can change the digits before m and s.

So the URL will look like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY#t=1m18s
instead of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

It will also help to save bandwidth because YouTube will start video download from the given time. Unfortunately deep link doesn’t work in case of video embedding.

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p@r@noid February 18, 2009 at 8:21 am

Deeplinking of youtube service is helpful for us to get rid of useless part of youtube video…
Now when ever I have to show something interesting to my friends…I dnt annoy with them irritating intro…:)

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Amit Verma February 18, 2009 at 9:45 am

It also helps to save the bandwidth :)

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