Google provides a feature with its YouTube service that allows a user to jump to any place in a video. The trick? Simply put a minute and second marker in the URL using the MMmSSs format, where "MM" is the minute value with a leading zero, and "SS" is the seconds value, also with a leading zero.
This minute and second values combination then just needs to be combined with some URL notation to tell YouTube to jump to this spot in the video. This looks like: #t=MMmSSs. Just tack this bit to the end of your URL and away you go. Compare the differences in an actual YouTube URL:
This minute and second values combination then just needs to be combined with some URL notation to tell YouTube to jump to this spot in the video. This looks like: #t=MMmSSs. Just tack this bit to the end of your URL and away you go. Compare the differences in an actual YouTube URL:
Plays the video from the beginning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu927_ul_X0
Plays the video from second 23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu927_ul_X0#t=00m23s
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