- From: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:28:47 +0100
- To: Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
FYI I just realize Ken's answer has not been distributed to the mailing list. Yves, has the message been bounced? I guess because Ken has not subscribed (yet?) to the mailing list ... Raphaël -------- Message original -------- Sujet : Re: YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos Date : Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:55:46 -0700 (PDT) De : Ken Harrenstien <klh@google.com> Pour : Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl> Copie à : Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org> Références : <490597E0.40402@cwi.nl> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Raphaël Troncy wrote: > Hi Media Fragments, > > Read this TechCrunch article: > http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/25/youtube-enables-deep-linking-within-videos/ > > YouTube allows now to send users to a specific point in a video, using the > hash '#' in the URL. The syntax is: "#t=1m45s" and an example is: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bibCui3lFM#t=1m45s > > So it seems the syntax is slightly different that the one used in > GoogleVideo. Ken, are you involved in this work? Not in the coding sense, although I've certainly been pushing for this feature, because it will indirectly encourage people to caption their videos. For a long time Google Video has provided these links for any search hits on caption text -- you can click on them to jump directly to the relevant point in the video. This is probably not well known simply because not many videos are captioned :-(. But hopefully this will encourage more sites to offer similar features. Um, has there been any discussion of a standard post-hash syntax? (I can ask since I'm new here :-) --Ken -- Raphaël Troncy CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands e-mail: raphael.troncy@cwi.nl & raphael.troncy@gmail.com Tel: +31 (0)20 - 592 4093 Fax: +31 (0)20 - 592 4312 Web: http://www.cwi.nl/~troncy/
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