You can consider a 3rd party helper like StageWebViewBridge which allows you to communicate with JavaScript in the StageWebView. Then you can tell JavaScript to properly dispose of the video and when done close your SWV.

Any idea when that next air update will be? I've read forum rumors of them ditching StageWebView overall (inconceivable to me) and I'm hoping they'll both keep it and remove beta status from it. Works great for me.

I would still run a dispose() and null the object for garbage collection ala:

webView.stage = null; // just make instantiated webview invisible, but still exists

webView.dispose(); // run self destroying sequence, who knows what adobe does in this

webView = null; // nullify reference marking for garbage collection

Just taking it off the active stage won't destroy it until nothing references it. You could hope adobe accurately derefrences it if you do another webView = new StageWebView(); as long as webView's scope is the same as the prior, e.g. class variable..

Have you tried StageWebViewBridge? Javascript can certainly stop a html5 video.

Regardless each page, as well as an onload handler, has an onunload handler. If you're embedding the video in a HTML5 page you might be able to fire off the onunload handler to make sure your video stops via JavaScript without StageWebViewBridge.

I had the same issue, and then they implemented StageVideo, so I play it directly without a StageWebView. Why not just use that GPU accelerated class?

My client wants an intro video to autoplay and I had to use StageWebViewBridge to talk to JavaScript after the page loaded to start the video automatically and it was a pain. Though Adobe has clearly stated not to use any items that are beta in a final product and at this moment StageWebView is marked Beta. Have you considered that?

StageVideo is no longer beta.

If you don't need to kill it (in other words, desire to have it continue to exist to reopen) why are you killing it? If you just want to hide it set the .stage property to null and it will disappear. Although if media is playing in it you may hear it. In that case you'd need to dispose and null which stops all movies just fine for me.

The stageWebView.reload(); is not necessary, perhaps due to 3.1. I never needed this with 3.0 either however.

If you want to use the same webview (class-level variable?) just stageWebView = new StagWebView(); and set the stage, viewPort and load something in it. If you null it you need to completely remake it. I re-use a class level variable to reference the same webview all the time. Works fine.

Are you loading a .html page or are you loading a video directly in there? I load it directly in the UIWebView so it auto-plays. Perhaps that's the difference.

I just do:

var sFileName:String = 'assets/video/some.mp4';

var rVideoFile:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath(sFileName);

if (rVideoFile.exists)

{

  _stageWebView = new StageWebView();

  _stageWebView.stage = this.stage;

  _stageWebView.viewPort = new Rectangle(x, x, x, x); // predetermined with baked in assets

  _stageWebView.loadURL(rVideoFile.nativePath);

}

When I need to get rid of the video I do the code I've mentioned several times..

_stageWebView.stage = null;

_stageWebView.viewPort = null;

_stageWebView.dispose();

_stageWebView = null;

Video or audio stops playing just fine. Also autoplays upon launching.