Video is 3 minutes long but you only want 3 seconds

Factual Questions
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Many times I’ve seen folks link to a 3 minute long video but they set it up so that only the relevant 3 seconds play.

How does one do that?

Enquiring minds don’t want to piss people off when we’re trying to be snappy :slight_smile:

Zeke

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if you have a youtube video you can right click it and there should be an option for “get URL at current time”
or manually add #t=00m00s to the end of the URL for minutes and seconds where you want the video to start

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Very cool. Good question and good answer.

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Actually, most YouTube videos will now show that in the Share URL: click “Share” and check the box labeled “Start at”.

And your code is slightly wrong: it’s ?t=00m00s not #t=00m00s.

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Reported for forum change.

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Moving thread from About This Message Board to General Questions.

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I just tested this

works and not ?

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It’s actually either

https://youtu.be/EwTZ2xpQwpA?t=2m32s
OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA#t=2m32s

But actually, neither one fully answers your question. This is how to make a video start in the middle. but it won’t make it play for only 3 seconds.

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Here is how to play a portion of a video:

[nourl]BANKS - WAITING GAME (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - YouTube

Note that the start and end times are expressed in seconds.

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I screwed up my previous reply. Here is the corrected version.
Here is how to play a portion of a video:


https://www.youtube.com/v/IaI5JCxOCdw?start=44&end=72&autoplay=1

Note that the start and end times are expressed in seconds.

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I never knew how to do end time

thanks for that

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My pleasure.

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I’ve actually looked that up before and had trouble getting it to work. But it seems to work now–though it doesn’t show the whole page. It seems to be designed for embedding.

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The ? precedes the first query parameter name in a URI and the & precedes the rest of the parameter names. The # references an anchor point in the document