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How to run a YouTube embedded video with a specific timestamp on iphone

I want to run youtube embedded video from a timestamp. I know how to do this in browsers, but it does not work on iPhone. Here is a detailed MATT CUTTS tutorial.

Play embedded video with a specific timestamp

In the link above, you can see if we added # t = 31m08s or / start = 200 to the url, but when I use the same url inside the UiWebView, the youtube player by default starts the video from the first frame. Maybe someone has an idea or it was implemented. I am using a UIWebView with a built-in tag to play videos on YouTube. I am using the inline tag below inside a 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 use 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];  
}
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