Youtube Start and Stop Times

Submitted by mbritt on Mon, 09/30/2019 - 17:08
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I'd really like the create a video activity using a video from YouTube. The video is long though and I want learners to focus on just one part of the video. I could instruct them to "jump to 2 minutes and 18 seconds" but I"d rather use the YouTube start and stop code format. I've looked on the web and I've tried a bunch of diferent formats. This one appears to work if you put it into a browser:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pp535nX6LCY?start=14&end=88

However, no matter what format of the YouTube link that I input into the H5P video activity, the video always starts at the beginning of the video. Is there a way to do what I want to do?

Michael

 

 

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BV52

Mon, 09/30/2019 - 20:16

Hi Michael,

I'm afraid not. I have tried this before and it looks like Youtube's API does not push these feature to external players like the Interactive Video.

-BV52

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mbritt

Mon, 09/30/2019 - 20:39

Thanks for letting me  know. Real bummer. The ability to do this would really make some of my projects flow much better. Oh well. Thanks again.

daniel.antoniuk

Mon, 03/16/2026 - 20:57

As stated on other posts you cannot simply append the link with "&start=XX" because the H5P uses the YouTube API that ingnores appended parts of the url code. Starting a YouTube video in H5P does work. Here's how: What you do is create and H5P interactive video. I believe this can be done with the standalone Interactive video type or within an interactive type that has the ability to use the H5P interactive video feature. For example I have verified that within an Interactive slideshow interactive type and on one of the slides I want a YouTube video to start playing at a specific point.  The solution is simple, just place the interactive H5P slide show you can have a an interacitve video within a slideshows slide. Then you can simply go to the behavioral settings drop-down for the interactive video and put in the start time in min: sec format under the start video at option. I also suggest checking the autoplay video option as well. This avoids creating clunky start buttons or go to buttons assuming you just want to start the YouTube video at a specified time. Based on this, now when the slide opens, the video plays at the specified time frame instead of the default start of the clip. If you already have an interactive video but have not selected this option within your slideshow, then you would need to select the video object within the slide, make the changes, and save them.

daniel.antoniuk

Mon, 03/16/2026 - 21:03

You must use the interactive video type. Once you put in the link make sure the video is still selected within h5p then go to the behavioral settings drop down type in the desired start time and select auto play. This will end up starting the video automatically at the desired time.