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Embed YouTube Videos & Skip The Boring Parts

Oct 11th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV, Video

Ever want to embed a YouTube video, but skip the boring parts?
Here’s how you can do it. 
YouTube’s embedded player has a parameter that you can use to specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video.
Just add &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to both URLs in [...]

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How To Embed YouTube Videos In High Quality

Jul 13th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, How to Podcast, Streaming Video

YouTube, by default, creates embed code that displays videos in relatively low quality.
Here’s an example, Matt Harding’s Where the Hell is Matt? (2008):

It’s possible, though, to embed YouTube videos with higher quality.
Here’s the same video, embedded with YouTube’s high quality option:

Notice how images, and especially type, are sharper.
Unfortunately, this is implemented with a hack. In [...]

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