Google allows the passing of a time variable thru the URL, for example



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5590199362471569773&it=1600



where the <font color="red">&it=1600</font> sets the video to begin at 1600 seconds.



The part I was interested in started at 26:40 where
(26*60)+40 = 1600 seconds so <font color="red">&it=1600</font>



However I wasn't having any luck getting this to work with google embedded.



Turns out, the flash variable is different, instead of <font color="red">it=1600</font> it's <font color="red">initialTime=1600</font>
so where <font color="red">FlashVars=""</font> is null by default we change it to
<font color="red">FlashVars="initialTime=1600"</font> in the embed code.



So if you've got a long video where the point of interest you'd like to share is later in the video you can set it to start at that time



If anyone knows how to do this with other hosts, I'd like to know, thanks.