# Three videos playing. make them stop!

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**Created:** [February 17, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/three-videos-playing-make-them-stop/179216 "2006-02-17T18:43:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/three-videos-playing-make-them-stop/179216/1 "2006-02-17T18:43:16Z")

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Hi, i have 3 shockwave videos that i DON’T want playing when the user comes to the screen. i’m loading them using loadMovie, as in below.

videoContainer1.loadMovie(“shockwaveMovie1.swf”);

this is in the first frame of my actionscript.

they load into 3 video players that i just duplicated and gave instance names to so that i could have independant control. the problem is, they play from the first frame. i want the user to be able to start them themselves, since it would be kind of annoying to have to watch them all at once. that being said, i DO have a compelling reason for having them on the same screen.

so – how do i stop them from autoplaying?