Video Deeplinking Now in YouTube

[harish]

YouTube has just introduced a handy feature in its already rich repertoire of services. You can now deeplink to YouTube videos, i.e you can now jump to a particular point in the video without having to use the progress bar in the player. All users need to do is append a short tag to the end of the video URL.

To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: “#t=1m45s”. The numbers before the ‘m’ and ’s’ can be changed to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively. Thus if I want to view a particular part of one of my favorite speeches (just kidding here, of course I want to see all of it, that's why it's a favorite you know!) I just add the following tag at the end of the URL :

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc#t=10m45s

Pretty handy, right?

Interestingly, YouTube is a little late to add this feature, Google Videos had it previously. But better late than never for YouTube.