YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos

Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/25/youtube-enables-deep-linking-within-videos/

by Jason Kincaid on October 25, 2008

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.

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