# Play Movie Only when Visible in Window?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-movie-only-when-visible-in-window/323441
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 30, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-movie-only-when-visible-in-window/323441 "2011-06-30T23:57:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![woodman650](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9bd4f/32.png) [@woodman650](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/woodman650)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-movie-only-when-visible-in-window/323441/1 "2011-06-30T23:57:24Z")

</div>

Hi there,

It’s been a while… I’m looking at putting together a page with a series of small flash videos but ideally they would only play when in the visible browser space (paused below or above fold)… this is to create a neat interactive effect while minimizing CPU load as well. I know this will probably end up being more of a JS solution (if at all possible) but I thought I’d start here.

Thank you in advance for any insights.