I want to start an embedded youtube video from a timestamp. I know how

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Asked: May 24, 20262026-05-24T13:25:03+00:00 2026-05-24T13:25:03+00:00

I want to start an embedded youtube video from a timestamp. I know how

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I want to start an embedded youtube video from a timestamp. I know how to do it on browsers but that does not seem to work on iPhone. Here is a detailed tutorial by MATT CUTTS.

Start an embedded video at a certain timestamp

In above link you can see if we append #t=31m08s or &start=200 in url it works but when i use same url inside UiWebView, default youtube player starts video from first frame. Can anyone have an idea or have implemented same. I am using UIWebView with embed tag to play youtube video. I am using below embed tag inside UIWebView.

 <embed id="yt" src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsFQ9kM1qDs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width= "500" height="400"></embed>

Below is the code i am using to play this video in UIWebView

- (IBAction) playYoutube {
    [self embedYouTube:@"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsFQ9kM1qDs#t=2m08s"];
}

- (void)embedYouTube:(NSString*)url
{  
    [webView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 480, 320)];
    NSString* embedHTML = @"\
    <html><head>" 
    "<style type=\"text/css\">"
    "body {"
    "background-color: transparent;"
    "color: white;"
    "} </style>"
    "</head><body style=\"margin:0\">"
    "  <embed id=\"yt\" src=\"%@\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" "
    "width=\"%0.0f\" height=\"%0.0f\"></embed>"
    "   </body></html>";  

    NSString* html = [NSString stringWithFormat:embedHTML, url, webView.frame.size.width,  webView.frame.size.height]; 
    [webView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];  
}