YouTube – How to Find the Link of an Embedded YouTube Video

Easiest way to do this would be in an iframe as in the following:

<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JW5meKfy3fY?start=60&autoplay=1" width="100%" height="100%"></iframe>

or, if you do not want the autoplay

<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rPS1y81b1Bw?start=1995" width="683" height="384"></iframe>

Or the more advanced way using their YT.Player object:

function onYouTubePlayerAPIReady() {
  var player;
  player = new YT.Player('player', {
    videoId: 'JW5meKfy3fY',
    playerVars: { 'autoplay': 1, 'controls': 0, 'start': 60 },
    events: {
      'onReady': onPlayerReady,
      'onPlaybackQualityChange': onPlayerPlaybackQualityChange,
      'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange,
      'onError': onPlayerError
    }
  });
}

I haven't tested that out, but it matches their example but I added the start parameter in there. Good luck!

YouTube nowadays tries to automatically detect which quality option fits your bandwidth best, and it also stores which quality you prefer in a cookie.

For this to work however, you need to have third-party cookies enabled and possibly anything that can interfere – adblockers, privacy enhancing addons, YouTube-altering addons, etc. – disabled.