Ever forward a YouTube video to a friend or embed a video on a blog but actually want to show them only a certain portion of the video? You might have to include a notice like “Wait till 1:36″ or “funny part after 16:45″. Not everyone has the patience to wait or forward the video to the exact point of time in the video mentioned. By adding a couple of characters to the end of the YouTube video url you can actually set the start point of the video where you want.

This magical set of characters to append at the end of the YouTube video url is simply:

#t=XmYs

where X is the video runtime minutes and Y is the video runtime seconds. So if you want the start point to be set at 16 minutes and 34 seconds into the video, you would add #t=16m34s to the end of the YouTube video url. If the start point is at 9 minutes and 9 seconds you would use #t=9m9s.

Posting a YouTube comment of a YouTube Video hyperlink with a set starting point

You can also set a start point link in the comments section of the YouTube video. By placing XmYs, in which you specify the minute and seconds, in the comments section of the YouTube video; XmYs will become a hyperlink to the video at that specific time in the video.

Entering 1m44s in the YouTube video comment section will create a link of the video with a starting point at the 1 minute 44 second mark.