# Video starts sharing automatically?

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/video-starts-sharing-automatically/6005>\
**Category:** Android\
**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/video-starts-sharing-automatically/6005 "2019-09-24T17:51:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![grey-bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/958977/32.png) [@grey-bit](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/grey-bit)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/video-starts-sharing-automatically/6005/1 "2019-09-24T17:51:07Z")

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As of Saturday, when my app connects to Zoom meeting, video starts sharing automatically. It didn’t do it before…

I can muteMyVideo after the meeting is established, but the camera still gets engaged for a brief second, killing my own camera preview session.

Unfortunately, calling muteMyVideo before connecting to the meeting has no effect.

Would it be possible to make muteMyVideo API functional even if it’s performed before the meeting is joined? I basically need a way to tell SDK that I don’t want it to share video before I join the meeting…

thanks!

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**Author:** ![carson.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/carson.zoom/32/785_2.png) [@carson.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/carson.zoom)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/video-starts-sharing-automatically/6005/2 "2019-09-25T05:00:26Z")

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Hi [grey-bit](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/grey-bit),

If you would like to mute the video by default, you can use([https://zoom.github.io/zoom-sdk-android/us/zoom/sdk/MeetingSettingsHelper.html#enableForceAutoStopMyVideoWhenJoinMeeting-boolean-](https://zoom.github.io/zoom-sdk-android/us/zoom/sdk/MeetingSettingsHelper.html#enableForceAutoStopMyVideoWhenJoinMeeting-boolean-))

```auto
ZoomSDK.getInstance().getMeetingSettingsHelper().enableForceAutoStopMyVideoWhenJoinMeeting(true);

```

Enable this setting and it will mute the video by default.

Hope this helps. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![grey-bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/958977/32.png) [@grey-bit](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/grey-bit)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/video-starts-sharing-automatically/6005/3 "2019-09-26T03:38:23Z")

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Thanks @carson.zoom, it worked like a charm!

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**Author:** ![tommy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommy/32/72769_2.png) [@tommy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommy)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/video-starts-sharing-automatically/6005/4 "2019-09-26T22:53:48Z")

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Thanks Carson! 🙂

-Tommy

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**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/video-starts-sharing-automatically/6005/5 "2020-08-21T18:43:14Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 6:43pm UTC