How to Link to a Specific Part of a YouTube Video
Sometimes you may want to refer your web site or blog’s readers to a specific part of a YouTube video, but the video has several minutes of irrelevant material before the desired part. Fortunately, there’s now an easy solution to this problem. Here’s how to link to a specific part of a YouTube video:
1.) Locate the page you want to link to and copy its regular URL from your web browser.
2.) Play the video, finding the specific minute and second of the part you intend to link to.
3.) Append #t= to the end of the URL. Then add the number of minutes, an “m”, the number of seconds, and an “s”:
#t=3m28s
Here’s an example of a link URL to a specific part (two minutes, 41 seconds) of a Google webmaster tutorial on YouTube:
It will start at two minutes, 41 seconds into the selected video and play to the end.
4.) Post the link as you normally would any other link.
Oddly enough, this linking technique works under Internet Explorer 7.0, but only links to the beginning of videos in Opera 9.24. Since this may also be a problem with other browsers, consider giving your readers a note about the time to skip to if it doesn’t happen automatically.
Some possible reasons for linking to specific parts of YouTube videos are to show someone making a specific statement, to skip over boring material at the beginning of a video, or to reference a specific step in a long how-to demonstration.
Basically, using this technique will save your web site or blog readers time and make your links more effective. It is simple and quick to apply to any YouTube video, doesn’t require any special coding, and may be accomplished using standard HTML linking methods.
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This is very neat way to display video , especially if you are quoting something from the video , I guess there is no way to limit the video ? I mean like from 1m13s to 2m14s