I was really overwhelmed by the success of my movie “History of the Internet”.
I never believed in such a success. Here I want to thank all the people, who made subtitles for the movie. The clip has already 11 subtitles, which can be selected on YouTube. I asked myself how to start the clip, with a certain subtitle, by a direct URL. After looking around for a while I found that piece “hl=en” in the URL, which is the key to this problem.

Subtitles

&hl=en

By adding for example “&hl=en” to the URL, you can launch the movie directly with English subtitles. For those, who don´t know it, “en” is an code from the ISO 639.1 language code list. By changing the code you can directly link to the other subtitles.

Full-screen

&fs=1

&fs=1 means full-screen enabled. If you want to change that you can turn 1 to 0

High Definition

&fmt=22

And here is the best and also the most popular part in a YouTube URL. By adding “&fmt=22” you can launch a clip in HD (720p)

Here is a list of all subtitled versions of the clip “History of the Internet”

Bulgarian (by Andrian Georgiev)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=bg&fs=1&fmt=22
(Doesn´t work as direct link yet.)

Chinese (by Terry Lee)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=zh-CN&fs=1&fmt=22
(Here you have to add “-CN” for China to the language code)

English (by Stefan Badragan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22

French (by Arnaud ‘dehy’ DE MOUHY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=fr&fs=1&fmt=22

German (by me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=de&fs=1&fmt=22

Greek (by Pantelis Bouboulis)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=el&fs=1&fmt=22
(Doesn´t work as direct link yet.)

Italian (by Stefan Badragan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=it&fs=1&fmt=22

Polish (by Agnieszka Marciniak)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=pl&fs=1&fmt=22

Portuguese (by Guilherme Euler)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=pt&fs=1&fmt=22

Spanish (by Mauricio Diaz Orlich)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=es&fs=1&fmt=22

Turkish (by Zeynep Can)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=tr&fs=1&fmt=22
(Doesn´t work as direct link yet.)

If you have tips why these three subtitles don´t work, please post it as comment. Maybe I´m wrong with the language codes.

Update: Maybe this link can help you, too.

Tags: HD, Internet, Off-Topic, Subtitles, URI, URL, YouTube

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