Embed movie clip in flex

Hey,
I have converted a avi file to an swf file with "MediaCoder".
My plan was to simply embed this movie clip into my flex application, which did not work for me. :-(
How can I embed the swf movie into flex AND play/stop the movie with buttons?
I tested the following code, but when I click on the stop button I get the error:
"TypeError: Error #1009: Der Zugriff auf eine Eigenschaft oder eine Methode eines null-Objektverweises ist nicht möglich."
Obviously there is a problem with that swf file because another swf file is working...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical" horizontalAlign="center" >
    <mx:Panel width="500" height="336">
    <mx:SWFLoader minHeight="300" minWidth="300" id="swfObj" source="@Embed('movie.swf')" creationComplete="init();" height="203" width="462"/>
    <mx:Button click="stop();" label="stop">
    </mx:Button>
    </mx:Panel>
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import flash.display.MovieClip;
            public var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
            public function init():void {
                mc = ( ( swfObj.content as MovieClip ).getChildAt(0) as Loader ).content as MovieClip;
            public function stop():void
                mc = ( ( swfObj.content as MovieClip ).getChildAt(0) as Loader ).content as MovieClip;
                mc.gotoAndStop(20);
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>
</mx:Application>

Actully I have two frame in movie clip(cs3). On mouse hover
it goes to second frame and on mouse out it comes to first frame.
Now when I am using this movie clip in flex and want to get the
click event on that movie clip it does not work at once. If I
remove the mouse hover and mouse out from movie clip the click
event works. But to get those mouse hover and mouse and in over
movie clip I had to write to many code.
However that mouse hover and mouse out by flex over movie
clip it takes time to get work.

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or
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             var i:Number=0;
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