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[Patrat]

Originally Posted by Mike McC

Time to teach you all a
BRAND NEW TRICK!

Have you ever found a YouTube with a really awesome bit, but that awesome bit was 7 minutes in? Have you ever wanted to link it to someone, but didn't want them to wait the seven minutes to see it? Well, guess what, you can! There is a handy dandy nifty spiffy feature which allows you to start the video at a time you specify!

You take the youtube's url (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00000000000) and you tag a special code to the end of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00000000000#t=XXmYYs

Where 'XX' is the number of minutes in it is, and 'YY' is the number of additional seconds in. In other words, it's the time the video tells you. If it's 0 minutes, however, just drop that bit off.

This would not be proper without a video example! Here is the video Nikose recently posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSmZrcyoJ6g

But, let's go to a random point in the middle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSmZrcyoJ6g#t=1m37s

Isn't that simple?

I think it's because youtube video's don't play at a per second frame rate, they're cut into pieces. Kinda like how you when, no matter how much you drag the slider, try to get it in the exact place you want, it will go wherever the hell it wants to.

for example, i put the slider to start at 20 seconds in this link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYBQd0FJlag#t=00m20s


It started at 18 seconds instead.
Just my conjecture anyways.