When I am on YouTube I often watch the short clips that I like a few times in a row. Most (actually about 99%) of YouTube videos are 10 minutes or less - they even set a cap. I imagine many other people want to watch a funny comedy clip or a music video more than one time. So why not have a looping option on the YouTube player? If I watch a 30 second comedy sketch and get a laugh - I will watch it a few times. Its great that there is a replay button in the viewing area after the video finishes, but how about a looping button as well - we are talking about clips. I use a looping button on my ipod, all digital music players on my cpu, my cd player and on Windows Media Player. Hopefully YouTube will add this feature as well.

There are a few people sharing the method of adding &loop=1 to the video url when embedding the YouTube video for the desired looping. How nice would it be as a button on the player.

Looped YouTube Embed Code - Addition to URL in Bold
<object width=”425″ height=”350″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/2rqTQP-l5Cs”></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/2rqTQP-l5Cs&loop=1” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”350″></embed></object>

See it in action below. Press play and watch the barrel action again and again without clicking. Update: this video does not loop anymore read possible reasons.

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