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DamianJones-0d2
Community Member
7 years ago

Embedded Vimeo wont start at specific times

Hello all 

I want to display some Vimeo videos at a specific start time, for example;

https://vimeo.com/172825105#t=22s (which will start 22s into the video)

Whenever I use the share code Rise seems to ignore it and start from the begining, what am I doing wrong?? 

9 Replies

  • Hi there, Damien.  Thanks for sharing and providing a sample embed code.  I'm seeing the same thing on my end.  I tested YouTube videos with the "begin at" parameter, and it was respected.

    Let me document this for my team so we can figure out why this is happening!  I'll update you here with any changes.

  • Hi again.  😊  Just a quick note:  I was able to use the start time parameter in the iframe embed code, even though it didn't work with just inserting the URL.  

    This is what I used, from the Vimeo "Share" options:

    <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/172825105" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

    Once I copied that embed code into the field, I manually moved my cursor to the end of the URL and added #t=22s?autoplay=0 and hit Enter.  Even with the autoplay parameter set to disable autoplaying, the video starts immediately.  You can control this with a Continue button. 

    Check out my course here.  Let me know if you see the same!  

    I'm still going to find out more about the URL with parameter not working, but in the meantime, I hope you can use this workaround.

  • Excellent little work around, this will be fine for our course modules - thank you for the quick response, 

     

  • Hi, it seems this works only with Public Videos, our videos need to be kept with a private link on VIMEO. Any other workaround for setting the start time that could be used with private link vimeo embed ?

  • Hi,

    I'm having the same problem. I tried your work-around but it didn't work. Have there been any developments to get this to work?

    • VickiTaylor-123's avatar
      VickiTaylor-123
      Community Member

      Never mind, just me being an idiot - the work-around is working! :)

      • Crystal-Horn's avatar
        Crystal-Horn
        Staff

        Hi Vicki - thanks for the update. Except for the idiot part! We're all learning. ❤️

  • Hi Max!

    To make the embedded Vimeo video start at a specific time, I got the Embed link from the Vimeo "Share" options, then added #t=60s to the end of the URL, as shown below:
    <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/128123120?h=8e35fc54f9#t=60s" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
    This will let the video start at the 60th second. When used in an Embed block in Rise, the video correctly shows the start time at 01:00 minute.