# How to control an flv that is in an external swf?

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**Created:** [October 1, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-an-flv-that-is-in-an-external-swf/272034 "2008-10-01T14:29:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![laurabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@laurabeth](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/laurabeth)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-an-flv-that-is-in-an-external-swf/272034/1 "2008-10-01T14:29:30Z")

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QI’m going to attempt to clearly explain my problem, hopefully i do ok.

I have a main swf. All the main swf contains is some buttons and an empty movie clip. the buttons load up a bunch of different swfs. I will eventually have like 20 + swfs to be loaded into this main file. Each swf is it’s own interface with at least 4 flvs you can play.

In my main swf,  
I have a movie clip on the stage that has an instance name of box. And the first swf I have is called “movie1.swf” this swf loads automatically in the 1st frame. This is the “feature”.

This is the code I use to load up the swfs.

> 

var myLoader:Loader = new Loader()  
var myURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“movie1.swf”);  
myLoader.load(myURL);  
box.addChild(myLoader);  
box.x = 0;  
box.y = 0;

THIS stuff is my menu button. When You click on the top\_btn which is the instance name for my menu button, it pops up a white box over the stage that contains a list of different swfs to jump to.

> 

top\_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openIT);  
function openIT(event:MouseEvent):void {  
gotoAndPlay(2);  
}  
This close\_btn is in the pop up menu, and tells the menu to go and play frame 13 where the close animation is…

> close\_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeIT);  
> function closeIT(event:MouseEvent):void {  
> gotoAndPlay(13);  
> }  
> It looks REALLY bad when there is an flv playing in the loaded swf doesn’t pause when the menu pops up.  
> I know this code works to pause a flv if it is in the same swf as the button.

> pause\_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_DOWN, pauseit);  
> function pauseit(event:MouseEvent):void {  
> Movie\_flv.pause();  
> }  
> I need some way that when the top\_btn pops up, the flv that is in the swf that is loaded at the time pauses.

Thanks so much for ANY help!!!