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Setting a time for your YouTube video to start at

Okay so you have an embedded YouTube video or link, and you want to select where in the time line it starts. If you are only using a LINK, the variable string is:

#t=*m**s

this is time = minutes and seconds (note the 2 digit seconds needed. Here it is in practice(this is link to Emmitt Smith hall of fame induction [SAFE]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5lZ_4RHkT0#t=1m30s

As you can see, it starts right where we want it to. This is especially useful in just getting a particular point in a very long video.

Now that you have seen that, how do we get it on an embedded video? The technique is the same but with a twist.

We have to use the ‘start’ command, and calculate all of the time into seconds. Since we want to start at the 1 min 30 seconds point; we convert that to seconds, which is 90 seconds. The embed code will look like this:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G5lZ_4RHkT0&hl=en_US&start=90"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/G5lZ_4RHkT0&hl=en_US&start=90" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Here you can see this used in the same video embedded in this site(starting at 1 min 30 seconds)

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