"Start time" on TED video embeds

Question

http://jsfiddle.net/N8dYL/

The goal i'm trying to acchieve is that when you click play, the TED Talk starts playing at for example 02:22

I've tried several things i know from JWplayer like video.mp4?time=02:22 but I couldn't get it to work on this player.

Does anyone have some inspiration for me?

Answer 1

AAhHH! I just noticed that when I pause a TED Talk, the url at the top changes with that number! So it's far easier that what I posted below - just pause the talk where you want and copy the URL!

Seems that when you use certain social media plugins/extensions (I'm using MeetEdgar on Chrome), you can click to share from the bookmark button when you pause the TED video and it will give a unique time number. I just did this one: http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_how_to_speak_so_that_people_want_to_listen#t-28636

There is no clear pattern, though, as the #t-xxxxx for 10 seconds was 426018, 20 seconds was 8651, 30 seconds 18670 and the one above was at 40 seconds.

I'm guessing the player creates a random number for that specific point. Probably so that people don't share just bits, but the whole thing.

I'm only guessing that some of the Twitter, Facebook or G+ plugins/extensions might do the same. Give it a shot!

~Bon