Example code here (not posted in post above, as it was making the post coding all quirky):

yeah! great feature, saw it explained in an article on www.thenextweb.org
would be nice to also be able to specify an ending time. (maybe it works already with &stop=335 ? never tried it)

btw, in the article they mention that it wont work in links, youtube does however allow deeplinking to a certain time in a video: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/25/youtube-enables-deep-linking-within-videos/

Nice, didn't even know that was possible. You're absolutely right, I sifted a couple of videos I wished I could've started on a specific time. *quality

Awarding doogle with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by campionidelmondo.

The video starts at the beginning for me.

Yeah - turns out that example was better starting at the beginning.

I've edited another video in my PQueue instead to start at 15 seconds in.

http://engineering.videosift.com/video/Tim-McGraw-ejects-unruly-fan-continues-song

Awesome tip. This is great for skipping over lame intros.

UPDATE:
Some videos may not have the "fs=1" parameter, because the embed code was grabbed before that parameter was included.
(sorry, I'm not going to waste my time out of curiosity figuring out what it does).

2 options:

Excellent. Thanks.
Saved the human race 5 minutes of watching Karel:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Palin-Supporter-Reveals-True-Colors-and-it-isnt-a-rainbow

At one time Lucky was filtering the extra codes so it wasn't possible to get by the filter. It used to be only google video has time shifting.

It would be good if youtube allows this. Let's hope it doesn't screw up the Already Submitted filter.

>> ^doogle:
Some videos may not have the "fs=1" parameter, because the embed code was grabbed before that parameter was included.

The 'fs' parameter allows the fullscreen button to show up. It shouldn't have any effect on the start time.

Great tip. Thanks.

>> ^jonny:
>> ^doogle:
Some videos may not have the "fs=1" parameter, because the embed code was grabbed before that parameter was included.
The 'fs' parameter allows the fullscreen button to show up. It shouldn't have any effect on the start time.


Right. Those are just query strings Flash reads as variables. The order shouldn't matter.

^ Yeah, that's true and I considered explaining that in my simplistic explanation, but I worried it may be too complicated for some.
However I'm learning I shouldn't underestimate the wisdom of the sifters.

This is a great tip. Perhaps it should be included in the posting guidelines?

Good stuff. *promote

Promoting this Sift Talk post - promote requested by schmawy.

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10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About:

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http://engineering.videosift.com/talk/10-Youtube-URL-Tricks-You-Should-Know-About

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