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Youtube with start time

KyussBishop · 2014-01-26 07:47:52

I've been messing around trying to post a youtube video in a thread, with a specific start time, and the normal code for doing it, doesn't appear to work. This should work (but is broken - starting at the beginning of the video, instead of halfway in): [noparse] [/noparse] Yet I figured out (after some messing), that…

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KyussBishop

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I've been messing around trying to post a youtube video in a thread, with a specific start time, and the normal code for doing it, doesn't appear to work.

This should work (but is broken - starting at the beginning of the video, instead of halfway in):
[noparse]
[/noparse]

Yet I figured out (after some messing), that adding an extra & parameter to the URL (doesn't have to be valid or mean anything), gets it working:
[noparse]
[/noparse]

Result of the first (broken) embed:

Result of the second (working) embed:

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#2 27-01-2014 09:26AM

Boards.ie: Alvis

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That is quite interesting. The BBcode parser for vBulletin is a little hacked to add Youtube embeds, there's probably something faulty in the regex. This may also behave different on the touch site/TalkTo's, which is an issue we need to look at.

Thanks for letting us know.

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