[Xerte] Re: YouTube start time

[Julian Tenney]

Is that good practice? I mean is it clear to the user? I'm just looking at it now, it might be easy to do, but I wonder if it makes usability sense to have the movie start halfway through first time, then go back to somewhere the user might not think is the start...

I'd prefer it to reset to the start time place.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 09 February 2011 13:11
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: YouTube start time

When the video reaches the end, clicking play again starts from 0 not the start time. The start time only works when the page is refreshed (e.g. the first time it is played)

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 09 February 2011 13:06
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: YouTube start time

When you do that thing with the start param, what happens when the movie is reset? It resets to 0 or it resets to the start time place?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 09 February 2011 13:01
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: YouTube start time

Dunno. Need to look up the API docs on the matter and see if it's something you can do via the chromeless player which we are embedding,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 09 February 2011 12:56
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Subject: [Xerte] YouTube start time

Hi all

Is there a way to use the Youtube "start" parameter in the Xerte Youtube page type?

You can add ?start=n (where n is a number in seconds) to the end of a video URL to direct the user to a specific part of a video.

However, adding this to the Xerte youtube page type using the new YT embed code doesn't seem to work:

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ndM9njm9Tnc?start=20" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Even though the embed does work on a standard HTML page.

Any ideas?

Cheers, Adam


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