How to dispose Chewie Video Controller

[thepseudomind]

Hello, I'm using the video player for the first time to create a movies app and every time I navigate away from the movie detail page back to the list of movies. The Chewie player keeps playing, infact it keeps starting over overlapping the previously playing one and you know the same video is playing more than twice. How do I dispose the playerController after I'm done on the page. I've tried calling the dispose function in WillPopScope but it's not working. What's the proper way to dispose the video player?

[marselek]

Hey. You should dispose of both videoPlayerController and chewieController in dispose method. I'm assuming you navigate to "list of movies" page with some button and not with Back button. If that is the case your Chewie player page stays in Navigator stack and dispose is not called. This is also why your onWillPop function isn't called because the page was not popped from the Navigator stack.
I managed to fix Chewie playing in the background with RouteObserver by overriding didPushNext() function which is fired when you leave the page that has RouteAware. I just paused the video and then sought to the start.
As for overlapping videos, you should check your Chewie page build function for loop caused by calling SetState() in it.