I'd been trying to figure this out, and did, thought I'd share
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.
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.
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TheSofaKingawesome tip!
eric3579*quality
siftbotGold Star member eric3579 has awarded Clayton one published post for this quality Sift Talk contribution.
pyrexAwesome find. Must be other embed hacks out there.
bl968This should only be really used if you can create a stop time as well as a start time imho. Without it you should just present the whole video. What you find interesting others might not and they might be interested in a part you would have just passed on by.
LadyBugjoedirt is going to be jealous!
i respectfully disagree, bl968 ... i think it's a great idea for anyone willing to try. the purpose of videosift is to present videos which interest you and see if the community finds the same interest as well ... unless of course you're just here for votes!
joedirtOld news. If you dig through the SiftTalk for discussion on FlashVars="initialTime=1600" you will find that in fact, this does NOT work on sift, as the submit parser chops off this part as not valid URL.
So until the parser gets modified, this is not "really" possible for the average submitter. (I believe you *might* be able to hack up the submission once it is in the queue) But, I was never able to add these FlashVars and requested that the code for submission be modified. It never happened.
There is FlashVar for EndTime (FinalTime or StopTime... I forget),
cheers.
joedirthttp://www.videosift.com/talk/Linking-to-a-time-in-Google-Video (4 months ago)
Clayton says...Thanks for the warning about the submitter Joedirt. I didn't know about the previous post by winkler1, guess I should have looked first. For those interested I found fairly comprehensive list of variables at:
http://muzso.hu/node/3169
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