Knowledge base/Feature Requests
Support translation of time anchors to start parameter in embed code for YouTube videos
Nicholas Paldino
suggested this on July 05, 2010 12:19
If given a URL to a YouTube resource that ends with an anchor that can start the player at a specific point, like so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRuxQd1cXsQ#t=01m23s
Going to that link will cause the player to start playing at 1:23.
If passed to Embedly, it would be great if that translated to the following URL in the embed code (emphasis mine):
http://www.youtube.com/v/LRuxQd1cXsQ&fs=1;start=83
Which will cause the playback to start at 1:23.
Here is more info on deep linking to a time for the player on YouTube's page:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=116618
And more info for the player embed code starting at a particular point can be found here:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html#start
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This sounds like a good idea, I will add it to the queue, and keep you updated.
While I know not all content providers support this functionality, if there is a way to expose this (start playback from a particular point) for a particular provider, then that would be great if it is exposed as well.
Hi Nicholas,
We have not seen many players with this option yet, obviously youtube is ahead of the game. As we continue going along we will try to figure out the best way to expose these.
If this is something that is critical to what you are building, please feel free to submit a support ticket and we can try to work through it.
Art
Art,
NOW you're talking =)
I agree, YouTube is ahead of the curve on this, and I don't know of many (or any, other than YT) that have this option.
As for something that is critical to what I'm building, it's a discussion I'd prefer to keep more private. Is there a better channel to have that conversation on?
http://support.embed.ly/tickets/new ( Add a support ticket and this will be a private conversation)
Hulu also allows for links that have time slices, is there a way that could be supported in the embeds via embedly?
+1 for this feature – is it close to completion?
I know a lot of Reddit users would love to see this feature. +1
We've got this support in for Youtube. We are respecting the "t" parameter passed in with the Youtube url.
Checkout:
http://embed.ly/docs/explore/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.co...
Close! In the time that it's taken to fix this, YouTube has changed their URL format. If you right-click a video on YouTube and click "Copy Video URL at Current Time", you'll get a URL with this format:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx#t=1m2s
The format that you added still works, but this one is probably the much more common one now.
Thanks for the heads up! Added support for the anchor tag time format on YouTube. Enjoy this classic clip:
http://embed.ly/docs/explore/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.co...