YouTube dropped #t start time support in direct URL and embed videos?

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ivanzolotov picture ivanzolotov · Jun 29, 2013 · Viewed 68.7k times · Source

Recently, one could use #t=2m0s or #t=120 to set start time for direct links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk2bUvrv-Uc#t=2m30s

as well as for embed videos:

<iframe width="420" height="315" \
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fk2bUvrv-Uc#t=2m30s" \
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Now it seems YouTube dropped #t start time support and the above doesn't work anymore. How can I now place reference to videos with particular start time?

Answer

ceasar picture ceasar · Jun 29, 2013

Embed videos

Looks like a different parameter is used now - start=<number of seconds> (see this blog and documentation).

Example:

<iframe width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen
        src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Nc9xq-TVyHI?start=110&end=119"></iframe>

Direct links

For direct links, it is enough to simply replace # for &:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk2bUvrv-Uc&t=2m30s

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