Sunday, September 18, 2011

Cool

I just figured out (translation: Googled) how to embed a Youtube video so that it starts at the point you want.  I had wanted to use the end of this clip in an uber-post that's going up tomorrow.



Great scene, but I want the bit at the end, about two minutes in.
Sherman McMasters: If they were my brothers, I'd want revenge too.

Doc Holiday: No, make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after.  It's a reckoning.
That starts about two minutes in, i.e. at 120 seconds.  So how to start the embed there?  Easy.

There's an embed string, that looks something like this:
param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-GREE8GdRrc?version=3&hl=en_US"
You want to offset it, so you add a &start=120 to the very end, but still in the quote marks:
param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-GREE8GdRrc?version=3&hl=en_US&start=120"
Presto!

7 comments:

  1. BobSeptember 18, 2011 at 2:42 PM

    Now that's a useful trick, and one I've wanted to be able to do for a long time. Thanks for sharing it!

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  2. Old NFOSeptember 18, 2011 at 3:13 PM

    Thanks I was 'wondering' how to do that... your Googlefoo is STRONG!!! :-)

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  3. UnknownSeptember 18, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    That is so cool! Thanks!

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  4. BobGSeptember 18, 2011 at 4:22 PM

    Thanks for the tip.

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  5. The Big GuySeptember 18, 2011 at 5:53 PM

    Very impressive, young Skywalker...
    Great tip.

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  6. USCitizenSeptember 20, 2011 at 10:52 AM

    I used you 'tip' on a video I posted - works great. Thanks

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  7. TOTWTYTRSeptember 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM

    Neat. The hard part will be remembering where I saw the neat trick.

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