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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bibCui3lFM#t=1m45s
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).
The YouTube team also has a great sense of humor. As was covered earlier this month,YouTube commentors are now presented with a button asking if they’d like to hear their comments read aloud before they are posted, in the hopes of preventing instances of accidental stupidity (the feature is a response to this now-famous comic).
Just watched a video where someone had a time as a link in their comment. Figured this post was coming. (^_^) It’s really convenient and should have come sooner!
A very nice addition
cool but to be honest if it was anyone else besides seo you’d run into dupelicate content issues because people will now be linking to the same page with like 200+ different urls.
That’s pretty sweet…
Apture has allowed you to do this for a while…
a very nice addition indeed
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I’ve noticed this feature today . thanks for telling us
I’m the creator of http://splicd.com and I’m glad YouTube finally implemented this feature. Last thing I could ask for from YouTube was to create an easier way for creating these links.
Hi Andrew, I use splicd.com
Thanks!
This was mentioned by the Youtube API blog. Over a month ago. It’s in the form of a start=SECONDS format though.
http://apiblog....res-942008.html
That works for embedded youtube videos, not for links to pages on youtube.com. The article is about the latter.
Thanks for letting us know about the addition of this feature to Youtube.
Thanks buddy!! It great for us.
Well its about high time! My gosh I didnt think it would ever happen.
Jiff
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sweet feature
Is there a way to do this on embeds?
Yes. I’d link the appropriate page in the youtube developer docs, but all you needed to do was read the comments on this page and you would have had your answer.
Nice news for the weekend!
Great feature.
splicd is great, I use it a lot. Youtube needs to add end time as well. Another similar service just popped up at http://tubechop.com
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This is a nice little update, however I think it might be a sign of how YouTube is becoming too big and has yet to address larger issues such as the comment overflow or thumbnail abuse.
Cool, now just add the “Out” to the “In” and it’s a perfect feature
At last… what were they waiting for? viddler and other websites has that feature since ages, there is huge number of enhancements youtube should apply, but they are relaxed and chillin knowing that they are the king of video online so they can add features on their own pace.
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Good Feature.
YouTube users have been forced to rely on third party services like http://keepvid.com/ to download videos as .fla and .mov files. It would be great if they added this feature as well…;)
Yea, mixed with annotations, this feature is a killer!
Mmmm…old news, Google Operating System also talked about this some days ago…
This seems not to work with HD Videos or together with the fmt=18 parameter?
GOOD TO KNWO
Annotations should be hyperlinked enabled allowing the user to click on the bubble and go to a “homepage”. Independent content producers would then be able to run their own “text” ads and make money off those viewers….
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Useful feature.
A big, “What took so long?” to Google.
Good, now does anyone have the # tag to create a link with annotations OFF? Some video annotations are so obnoxious that I can’t in good conscience link to videos that abuse them.
Very good feature – just need to link tags to time lines now.
Does he say Udder?? >> http://il.youtu...h-Ia53U#t=1m40s
But what if the video is less than 1m45s long?
nice job.its helpful
Definitely useful. Google Video has that, and I was wondering how long until the same trick would get built into the Youtube player.
Go YouTube!
Cool feature, will come in handy
It’s about time. Much better than having to tell people at which time to start watching the video.
I’ve noticed this feature today . thanks for telling us
Great feature.
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Great feature, should be very useful!
Marko
http://www.howtomakemyblog.com
Cool addition…Pretty good stuff
Hi Everyone. I’m the webmaster behind Splicd.com. Glad to hear everyone finds Splicd as useful as I do. Let me know if you have feedback to improve it. Thanks!
It’s about time, YouTube announced that they are now supporting the ability to use deep links, to go directly to a specific second of a video. It’s a bit surprising that it took Google so long to implement it, and more surprising that they needed their community to make them understand the need for that. Better late than never, and more importantly I always respect a company that listens to its users.
http://www.logb...sAboutTime.aspx