# Pause FLVPlayback buffering? - how?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-flvplayback-buffering-how/326253>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 1, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-flvplayback-buffering-how/326253 "2011-12-01T23:23:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boreez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Boreez](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Boreez)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-flvplayback-buffering-how/326253/1 "2011-12-01T23:23:08Z")

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Ok, so I have an FLVPlayback playing a movie, let’s call it MainMovie. At some points during MainMovie, the user is able to open a popup on top of MainMovie which contains a smaller movie. However, this movie will sometimes take forever to load because MainMovie is still buffering in the background?

Is there a way to pause MainMovie’s buffering (and restarting it again later when the small movie is closed down again)?