Posting Youtube Videos
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Posting Youtube Videos
I have been having a problem posting certain Youtube videos here.
When posting a link to videos where I want to go directly to the relevant segment, I like to right-click on the YT video and choose the option "Copy Video URL at the Current Time". This creates a link to the video which is supposed to start playing at the time that's selected. I use this to skip intros, and non-relevant parts. Much more convenient than telling people in my post "please advance the video to 3:27, that's where the interesting part begins".
QUESTION: Is there a way to preserve that point in the video where I want it to start playing? Every time I try to do that on this message board, the video starts playing right at the beginning instead of the time I selected in my link. I tried making the YT link into a URL, but the videos still start playing from the beginning. Help!
When posting a link to videos where I want to go directly to the relevant segment, I like to right-click on the YT video and choose the option "Copy Video URL at the Current Time". This creates a link to the video which is supposed to start playing at the time that's selected. I use this to skip intros, and non-relevant parts. Much more convenient than telling people in my post "please advance the video to 3:27, that's where the interesting part begins".
QUESTION: Is there a way to preserve that point in the video where I want it to start playing? Every time I try to do that on this message board, the video starts playing right at the beginning instead of the time I selected in my link. I tried making the YT link into a URL, but the videos still start playing from the beginning. Help!
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I have been having a problem posting certain Youtube videos here.
When posting a link to videos where I want to go directly to the relevant segment, I like to right-click on the YT video and choose the option "Copy Video URL at the Current Time". This creates a link to the video which is supposed to start playing at the time that's selected. I use this to skip intros, and non-relevant parts. Much more convenient than telling people in my post "please advance the video to 3:27, that's where the interesting part begins".
QUESTION: Is there a way to preserve that point in the video where I want it to start playing? Every time I try to do that on this message board, the video starts playing right at the beginning instead of the time I selected in my link. I tried making the YT link into a URL, but the videos still start playing from the beginning. Help!
When posting a link to videos where I want to go directly to the relevant segment, I like to right-click on the YT video and choose the option "Copy Video URL at the Current Time". This creates a link to the video which is supposed to start playing at the time that's selected. I use this to skip intros, and non-relevant parts. Much more convenient than telling people in my post "please advance the video to 3:27, that's where the interesting part begins".
QUESTION: Is there a way to preserve that point in the video where I want it to start playing? Every time I try to do that on this message board, the video starts playing right at the beginning instead of the time I selected in my link. I tried making the YT link into a URL, but the videos still start playing from the beginning. Help!
Example
When in YouTube, click the Share button and use the checkbox for "Start At ..." to get the URL for the start time you selected.
I hope this helps!
Last edited by Hypno Toad; 02-26-19 at 08:56 AM.
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OK, I stand corrected, something in the site has changed. The linked video above includes a start time, but the embedded video is starting at the beginning.
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Yeah, I'm not sure there is a workaround for this, given the current options. It seems to be happening during whatever automatic embedding process this board's software uses. If i could just post a bare link that had the time code at the end, it would work i think, but the embedding is messing with that somehow.
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Just tell them to go to X to see what you mean.You Tube has changed so much in the last few months alone that it's practically a new site.
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The timestamp feature is one I have been using on various message boards for at least 6-7 years, and it's worked on every other board's software. Might be some sort of anti-spamming feature here, I speculate. Or maybe it someone here used it to trick people into viewing porn or gore content. Who knows? Would be nice to use the feature here, but i won't hold my breath.
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I think it's just You Tube. You might try You Tube Help.
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