youtube embedding with a timestamp not working as expected

BahamutZERO

At some point we started being able to embed youtube links with timestamps, but they don't seem to direct the video to start at the right time. I'm not sure what the rhyme or reason to where it does start is.
For example this link should be pointing at 15:42 but ends up starting at 5:02.

https://youtu.be/dCHyAvHRKJU?t=15m42s

Orphane

whooops definitely wrong thread/place, disregard this please

IcyLiquid

You're right though, sometimes dream are fuckall crazy.

Rius

I'm seeing this behavior too now. Tried to timestamp a video to 29 seconds, it starts at 0:00 instead.

Gvzbgul

I just had a video time stamped for 1:50 start at 1 min. I got the url by doing the share thing on youtube.
https://youtu.be/pUbXyd-fK8Q?t=1m50s
https://youtu.be/pUbXyd-fK8Q?t=1m50s

Goatmon

The timestamp code only works for the single minute and second for some reason

It ignores the teens for both minutes and seconds.

So a video timestamped for 17 minutes 58 seconds and one timestamped 27 minutes and 18 seconds will both start at 7 minutes 8 seconds.

Fawst

I'm not sure this isn't a YouTube issue. I had the same problem the other day, but I was using only single digits for minute and second, but the URL wasn't working even on its own, let alone embedded here. And it was the right format. *shrug*

Muffinatron

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Think I might have figured out what was going wrong, but I needed to post to check, preview wasn't working.

I figured out what's going wrong. When the forums parses the youtube URL to embed the video, it's only retrieving the last number before the unit type for the timestamp.

For example, in @BahamutZERO 's video the timestamp is 15 minutes and 42 seconds, or 15m42s. It's only parsing the digits immediately preceding the m and s (15m42s), giving a timestamp of 5 minutes and 2 seconds.

Same with @Gvzbgul 's video. The timestamp is put in as 1m50s, but is only being read as 1m0s.

Easy way to demonstrate this is to use Gvzbgul's video and change the timestamp to 1m52s, which now is being read at 1m2s:
https://youtu.be/pUbXyd-fK8Q?t=1m52s


edit; Realised Goatmon beat me to it. I really need to read through the entire thread before I post. D'oh. Pretty sure this is a forum issue though, there's a conversion going on from minutes to seconds for the embedding tags in the HTML source.