YouTube Enables Handy Deep Linking Within Videos Check this out! It’s not a big new feature but it’s certainly one that will come in handy: YouTube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by appending a short tag to the end of a video’s URL. It’s pretty surprising that this functionality wasn’t available earlier, as Google Video introduced the same feature over two years ago. YouTube users have been forced to rely on third party services like Splicd to do the same thing. To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: “#t=1m45s†(you can change the numbers before the ‘m’ and ’s’ to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively. Here’s an example: Code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bibCui3lFM#t=1m45s Code (markup): As another nice touch, YouTube will also automatically detect when someone mentions a time in a video comment and add a hyperlink to that point in the video. The feature just went live and there isn’t any easy way to do this though the YouTube UI without manually adding the tag (YouTube hasn’t mentioned it on its official blog yet, either). Reply With Quote
Great find, and very interesting feature.. Will give it a try later on today, specially the auto link video comments one.. Thank you for sharing
I think they will just parse regular time and add the link themselves. For example: 1:45 rox! Would likely have 1:45 a hyperlink.
interesting feature! this is very useful when you just want to get to your point! i wonder if they will ever be able to devlope one where you dont manually have to put in the time