"Start time" on TED video embeds

Question

http://jsfiddle.net/N8dYL/

The goal i'm trying to acchieve is that when you click play, the TED Talk starts playing at for example 02:22

I've tried several things i know from JWplayer like video.mp4?time=02:22 but I couldn't get it to work on this player.

Does anyone have some inspiration for me?

Fur

If you want to time stamp on a URL you can use the transcript feature to get a url, which will start at a given point. Example: ted.com/talks/deborah_gordon_digs_ants#t-459000 – Dodecanese

Answer 1

The only thing i can think of is downloading the mp4, and using JWplayer, like i just did.

Fur

Yes - most likely this is just not possible with the TEDPlayer. – Colloquium

Answer 2

AAhHH! I just noticed that when I pause a TED Talk, the url at the top changes with that number! So it's far easier that what I posted below - just pause the talk where you want and copy the URL!

Seems that when you use certain social media plugins/extensions (I'm using MeetEdgar on Chrome), you can click to share from the bookmark button when you pause the TED video and it will give a unique time number. I just did this one: http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_how_to_speak_so_that_people_want_to_listen#t-28636

There is no clear pattern, though, as the #t-xxxxx for 10 seconds was 426018, 20 seconds was 8651, 30 seconds 18670 and the one above was at 40 seconds.

I'm guessing the player creates a random number for that specific point. Probably so that people don't share just bits, but the whole thing.

I'm only guessing that some of the Twitter, Facebook or G+ plugins/extensions might do the same. Give it a shot!

~Bon

Aetna

It works well but does not work when I embed the video, any clue? – Fowler

Thank you so much. I will put "#t-500" to every TED video to skip that staring sound. – Obsession

Answer 3

this post may help

Start HTML5 video at a particular position when loading?

or at least that's what i hope lol :D

make sure you read this

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/everything-you-need-to-know-about-html5-video-and-audio/

you might find it helpful after all :D

Kalmuck

I already solved it by hosting it on my own CDN and using jwplayer, their CDN didn't support it neither did their player. To bad you are just easy bounty hunter. – Fur

I'm not a bounty hunter, i have answered the question because i have a video hosting site and i want to add something like that on my site lol so i was doing a research for me and you...and I don't care about my reputation here lol, i want to have about 75 only coz then i can vote up and down and comment on the question...more reputation won't do me any good, I'm not so active here. I'm a top contributor on yahooanswers.com programming section and only come to here if the question will not be answered there..i ask on 6 forums including this one...never cared stupid about points – Kalmuck