Youtube adds Download Options to some videos

 Youtube honors ChangeDotGov with iPod-ready downloadable videos.

This may not be a much awaited feature[since there a quite a large number of external Youtube video downloaders available] but a significant change for sure.Yeah we are talking about Youtube video download feature.Youtube has rolled out this feature from Jan 18th,2009 and US President’s official channel ChangeDotGov becomes the first channel to get a ‘Download’ link included at the bottom of the video.

 

You can see the download button download the video in mp4 format playable in iPods[marked in red].At present this download option is available only to some selected videos but we soon may see this feature being extended to all videos.

How to Use YouTube’s Deep Linking to start video from any time

Yesterday YouTube has rolled out this new feature known as ‘Deep Linking’ which allows users to start video from their desired point of time[provided the input time is within the length of the video].

Let’s see how we can use YouTube Deep Linking:

Look at the following YouTube video URL,and observe the time stamp ‘#t=1m25s’ that has been appended to the URL.

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=v6BPuKaLel4#t=1m25s

And If you try opening this in YouTube,you can see that this video starts buffering from 01:25[the time that we desired].

Look at the following screen shots to get better idea:

Screen Shots:

[Click to enlarge these screen shots]

Appending the time tag syntax

Once you have done that you can see the video starting from that time[01:25 in this case]

The one more good thing about this is if someone finds something is very interesting at a particular time stamp,they can post it in comments and YouTube will automatically adds Hyper Link to that so that when users click on that it stats from that time.

 

You can see the Hyper Link that’s visible with the ‘1m50s’ in the above photo

Well this may be not a big one but certainly makes life simpler.It took more than 2 years for YouTube to come up with this,when it’s owner Google had started this feature two years back in Google Videos.