Setting Start Points of Embbeded YouTube Videos

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In a previous post, I shared how to set the starting point of a YouTube video by appending the link URL with some extra code. I thought this would be helpful for many.

But no, that wasn’t good enough for some, and I was asked how to do the same but with an embedded YouTube video. Thanks, Tim!

Well, you asked, and I will answer!

Below is the embed code for the same video by Sir Ken Robinson in the previous post:

To set the start point for the embedded video, we must append the video source twice. Look in the code above for the URL – “http://www.youtube.com/v/iG9CE55wbtY&hl=en_US&fs=1&border=1″

Now, just add this little bit of code ” &start=26″ [without the quotes] to the end of the string so it looks like this: “http://www.youtube.com/v/iG9CE55wbtY&hl=en_US&fs=1&border=1&start=26″

The ampersand connects the previous parameters (language, border size, etc.) with the starting point of 26 seconds. This is just a little different than when we appended just the URL link. In this case, you must translate minutes and seconds only to seconds. So if we wanted to start the video 5 minutes and 26 seconds into the presentation, our appending code would look like this: “&start=326″

That’s 5 x 60 seconds [300] plus 26, to equal 326. The embedded video below will start at that point.