I recently read that google video lets you not only embed a video onto a blog or a webpage, but that you can embed a specified section (starting point) of the video only. This is very useful if you are wanting to highlight only a small part of the video without requiring your readers to go through the entire segment to try to get your point. Take, for example, this following embed code for a clip of my daughter jamming to a made up song:
<embed id=”VideoPlayback” src=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-7772336859252185649&hl=en&fs=true” style=”width:400px;height:326px” allowFullScreen=”true” allowScriptAccess=”always” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”> </embed>
Now, if you were to watch that video, it would be a full minute of musical bliss – to a parent or aunt or uncle. However, a stranger that doesn’t really care about my children, may want me to get to the point and only see the segment that I am writing about. In order to specify the starting point of that segment, I simply add the following attribute on the “embed” tag: FlashVars=”initialTime=number” where “number” is the number of seconds from the beginning of the clip. See the code segment below:
<embed id=”VideoPlayback” FlashVars=”initialTime=30″ src=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-7772336859252185649&hl=en&fs=true” style=”width:400px;height:326px” allowFullScreen=”true” allowScriptAccess=”always” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”> </embed>
OK….lets try this out!
