# Controlling a movie externally

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-movie-externally/224578
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**Created:** [May 3, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-movie-externally/224578 "2007-05-03T12:26:16Z")
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### Author: ![halian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/45deac/32.png) [@halian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/halian)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-movie-externally/224578/1 "2007-05-03T12:26:16Z")

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I was wondering if it’s possible to control a movie via external links. Example.

“main.swf” is loaded into an html page.

below that is either another “menubar.swf” or just standard html links.  
clicking one of the links would play a video clip in the “main.swf” or something like that.