Linking to a Specific Section of a YouTube Video

Matt Cutt’s blog has a nice tip: you can link to a specific part of a YouTube video. Here are a few excerpts from his two posts.

To link to a specific part of a YouTube video, add the time parameter. This example goes 31 minutes and 8 seconds into the presentation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s

You can also start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp. This method uses the “start” parameter.

“ Note that start takes seconds as a parameter, not minutes and seconds. For example, to start an embedded video 31 minutes and 8 seconds into a video, 31*60+8 = 1868 seconds.”

<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PjDw3azfZWI&hl=en_US&start=1868"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PjDw3azfZWI&hl=en_US&start=1868" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>