How to stop and remove running movieClip which is dynamically created

Question

I am new to flash/AS2, and was trying to make a youtube video gallery in flash AS2.0. I've created one movieClip with name "video_mc" and creating child clips inside, to load youtube movies on release of buttons ("video_btn01" and "video_btn02"). Here is my code.

var vidId:String = "";

function createMovieInstance(mid){
    var mclip:MovieClip = video_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("v", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
    mclip.loadMovie("http://www.youtube.com/v/"+mid+"&autoplay=0");
}

video_btn01.onRelease = function(){
    vidId = "iRaR7O1wNGg";
    createMovieInstance(vidId);
}
video_btn02.onRelease = function(){
    vidId = "h22OsQONU3M";
    createMovieInstance(vidId);
}

Movies are getting loaded properly, but the first loaded movie will be playing in background while the next is getting loaded, because i'm creating another clild movie clip and loading the second movie, while the first one is getting played in another movieClip instance. So need to find the running movieClip and unload it. It would be great if somebody can assist me how to overcome this issue. Cheers!..

user1526581 user1526581 · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-23T11:58:14

Try this out, and let me know.

 function createMovieInstance(mid){
    if(video_mc.v != undefined){
        video_mc.v.unloadMovie();
        //If the Depth is above or below the limit this will help you
        video_mc.v.swapDepths(0);
        video_mc.v.removeMovieClip();
    }
    var mclip:MovieClip = video_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("v", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
    mclip.loadMovie("http://www.youtube.com/v/"+mid+"&autoplay=0");
}

How to stop and remove running movieClip which is dynamically created

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