Lightbox Ultimate- Playing video from a certain time in Youtube is not working

[Terve]

I am trying to use the parameter in YouTube to start playing a video from a certain time.

#t=00m41s (Start from 41 seconds into the video). It works with youtube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7yLPZFgUM#t=00m41s] but not in WP Lightbox.

[wpCommerce]

Hi, There are different versions of the YouTube player (example: AS3, AS2, HTML5). And not all parameters are compatible with each version of the player. Do you have the link to documentation where YouTube describes the usage of “#t=00m41s” parameter?

Which shortcode are you using to test it out?

[Terve]

I cannot find these specifications on Youtube’s support other than a general suggestion how to deeplink into videos you share with friends [http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=116618&topic=16649&ctx=topic]

But it works well when trying any of the suggestions that I have found elsewhere:

[http://www.labnol.org/internet/linking-to-a-specific-time-of-youtube-videos/5101/ (full)]

[http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/start-youtube-video-minutes-seconds/ (embedded)]

I have tried both the #t=00m41s ?t=00m41s and the &start=41 parameters without result.

Here is one of the shortcode examples:

[wp_lightbox_prettyPhoto_video link=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7yLPZFgUM&start=41″ description=”TIM Brasil interview (in English after 42s)” source=”http://216.70.90.173/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/TIM-Telesemana-interview.jpg” title=”TIM Brasil interview (in English after 42s)” img class=”alignright size-full wp-image-5215″ style=”margin-top: 5px;margin-right:500px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:10px”]

The two #t=00m41s and ?t=00m41s parameter formats works well in a youtube link:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7yLPZFgUM#t=00m41s]

[wpCommerce]

Hi, I checked the YouTube documentation but couldn’t find any parameter named “t”. I think this parameter only works when you actually visit the video page on YouTube. Playing video on your site (using YouTube api) and playing a video directly on YouTube are different.

[Terve]

Ok, thanks. We will have to ask Youtube to add that parameter to their APIs

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