How to Stop a Video in ActionScript 3

I have created a flash site that navigates between 4 pages (Home, About, Play, Making)
The pages Play and Making both contain videos that are a movie clip symbol and have skins on them.
When i press play (I turned off autorun) on a video it will play as should do, but when i navigate to another page such as Home or About, the new page will appear but the sound from the video continues to run in the background.
It's as if it keeps that page in the background and keeps playing. When i attempt to go back to the page and try to press pause - the video is at the beginning, waiting for me to press play, its not going at all, even though i can still hear the music of it going.
I want to know how i can make it stop the video when i navigate to another page.
I have tried to put "instance_name.stop()" but it stops all animations in the whole site. (every other animation is a graphic not a movie clip)
I run Flash CS5 and its in an actionscript 3 page.
How can i make it stop????
If you need more info to help me with this problem, let me know and i will tell you what you need...

The very first action in any of the page navigation should be a control on the video to stop the video. Then.... and only after the video has been stopped, navigate to the next page.
Most likely your video player has a "Stop" button. Call that action first in your page navigation button.
If you are using NetStream, then you'll want that action to be
netstream.close();
so that the download of that first video file also stops. Other wise the entire first video file may be downloaded even if the viewers does not watch the whole thing. Be sure to do some testing to make just you can also stop the downloading, not just turn off the video/audio.
Best wishes,
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