Start YouTube Videos At Specific Time: UPDATE

A while back @doogle posted this helpful information about how to start YouTube videos at specific times. Now, in an effort to confuse YouTubers even more (just try to find a playlist embed code these days), they have changed the way you code the start times in the embed code. Please read the following example.

Let's say you want to start a YouTube video at the 2:20 mark. That would be 140 sec, so do this:

You add:

;start=140

to two parts of the embed code of the video immediately after:

;fs=1


Basically all YouTube did was change the ampersand code - & - to a semicolon - ;
Don't ask me why they did this, but they did. Thought you all might like to know.
kronosposeidon says...

Have your tried it using the old method (with & ) with new YouTube embeds (that use ; )? It won't work unless you use ; now. I found that out when fixing the embed for this video. When adjusting the start time to eliminate the unnecessary intro that someone else had added, I noticed that the ampersand code was no longer before fs=1. Nonetheless I still tried using the ampersand after it, but I checked to make sure it would work by trying to submit it as a new video first, just to see if the new start time would work, and it didn't. So that's why I was forced to use the ; instead.

But don't take my word for it. Try it out yourself.

>> ^blankfist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#Structure
I'm sure you can still use ampersands as your delimiters if you wish. Stop scaring everybody, KP!

kronosposeidon says...

I take it back, it seems to be working now with the ampersand. I swear it wasn't working yesterday though. I'm NOT crazy, you motherfucker! >> ^blankfist:

You're probably right. I wonder if all delimiters need to be consistent.
But don't lick my balls for it. Try it on yourself.

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