Starting YouTube videos at specific times in VLC

[the.electricat]

Hi all,

Have tried many different workarounds for this with no luck.

I want to start YouTube videos in a VLC playlist at specific times to cut out the intro parts of music videos where there is dialogue but no music.

In YouTube it's possible to add "&t=100s" at the end of the URL to start the video at 100 seconds in, however when I paste the link into VLC the player seems to ignore that part and just starts the video from the beginning. In VLC you can set a start time for videos in the settings pane but this seems to change the start time for ALL the videos in the playlist, and I want to be able to manipulate this individually.

Any tips?

I have this script in youtube.luac: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/ma ... outube.lua

Thank you!!

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The Lua script does not currently implement start time.

[mekondelta]

I downloaded the video using youtube-dl and then use the #EXTINF:start-time and stop-time to control which parts I play. Couldn't find another way...