Remove MPMoviePlayerController - ipad

Question

I am using the MPMoviePlayerController to play a movie from the web.
Depending on the table row selected a different movie is loaded. However, i would like the MPMoviePlayerController to disappear (or hide itself), once a new row is selected.
Here is the code that gets called to play my movie and to, eventually, hide it
- (IBAction) playMovie{
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:vidMovie];
moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]initWithContentURL:url];
moviePlayer.view.frame = vidPlayer.frame;// CGRectMake(64, 624, 640, 360);
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayer.view];
[moviePlayer play];
}
- (void) hidePlayer{
[moviePlayer stop];
[moviePlayer release];
}
in my .h i declare moviePlayer as such
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer;
I've tried setting the moviePlayer frame height and width to 0 but that still shows the play button.
I've tried the variables .hidden and .opaque and still i get nothing
Could anyone help me figure out what i might have forgotten. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Answer 1

I found it after trying all sorts of different things...
Seems i needed to retain my moviePlyer to be able to remove it in another part of my code.
If anyone has the same problem, here is my solution!
- (IBAction) playMovie{
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:vidMovie];
moviePlayer = [[[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]initWithContentURL:url] retain];
moviePlayer.view.frame = vidPlayer.frame;// CGRectMake(64, 624, 640, 360);
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayer.view];
[moviePlayer play];
}
- (void) hidePlayer{
[moviePlayer stop];
[moviePlayer.view removeFromSuperview];
}
Hope this might be able to help othes!