# How do I stop live playback after xx minutes in Wowza Player?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-stop-live-playback-after-xx-minutes-in-wowza-player/50547>\
**Category:** Wowza Player\
**Created:** [January 11, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-stop-live-playback-after-xx-minutes-in-wowza-player/50547 "2018-01-11T16:52:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Thorpe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Michael\_Thorpe](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michael_Thorpe)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-stop-live-playback-after-xx-minutes-in-wowza-player/50547/1 "2018-01-11T16:52:10Z")

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Hello,

How do I stop live playback after xx minutes in Wowza Player? We want to time out live stream playback on the player after xx minutes and go to pause (allowing the viewer to click play again if they are still watching).

Thanks, Mike

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**Author:** ![Rachael\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rachael_s/32/416_2.png) [@Rachael\_S](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rachael_S)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-stop-live-playback-after-xx-minutes-in-wowza-player/50547/2 "2019-04-23T21:03:15Z")

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Hi Michael,

You might find this article useful in the future for the type of functionality you described in your post.

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-stop-or-pause-after-a-specified-time-with-the-wowza-player-javascript-api](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-stop-or-pause-after-a-specified-time-with-the-wowza-player-javascript-api)

-Rachael