bigclivedotcom is a Youtube channel operated by Clive from Isle of Man. He dissects and investigates all kinds of electronics stuff, mostly ordered from questionable eBay sources. If you are into electronics this is a really enjoyable channel.
When you share a video on Youtube you can select to start the shared video at a certain point of time in the video. Like this (selected to start at 0:40).
This option however is not availible when embedding a video. It can be solved manually though. The embed code from Youtube looks something like this:
<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/6bHSP9Ddw5w” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
To start the video from a specific time, you add the ?start=XXX where XXX is the point counted in seconds. So if the start time includes minutes you have to convert into seconds. If I want the embedded video to start at 0:40 I add ?start=40 like this:
<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/6bHSP9Ddw5w?start=40” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
This is the embedded video starting at 0:40 (and yes, that is me reverse driving an articulated 18 meter bus – sometimes, when I’m not busy ruling Nerdia or working as an IT consultant I walk out into the real world where I sometimes work as a bus driver and it is great fun! :)):
I have a YouTube channel where I post videos from different strange things I am up to. Suddenly I noticed the video shows dropped significantly. The statistics (analytics) showed that the majority of my video views came from "related videos" (also sometimes referred to as suggested videoes).
Some Googleing on the subject didn’t really turn up with a reason or solution but I found people with similar problems and someone said YouTube has a function to disable your videos from related videos if you view your own videos repead number of times, possibly trying to "boost" your view counter.
This wasn’t happening in my case but I do use to visit my own channel as it is a quick way to see it’s number of views. The featured video on my channel is on autoplay – so yes, every time I visited my channel I also triggered one of my own videos.
After that I haven’t visited my own channel for two months and last week the statistics starts to show that the views coming from related / suggested videos are climbing back to the levels two months ago.
I haven’t been able to verify this with YouTube but my advise is – don’t visit your own YouTube channel or your own videos unless you are logged out from your YouTube account.
In Ubuntu eee 8.04 for Asus EeePC 900/901 (‘Easy Peasy‘) there is a problem when trying to look at Youtube videos. Almost all videos gives a message saying that it is not currently available.
The problem is the flash player included in the Ubuntu eee installation. To resolve the problem:
