FLVPlayer with Multiple Videos - via buttons

I have my stage with the FLVPlayer and its easy enough to get it to play one video, but I have a series of buttons on the right hand side (day1, day2, day3.. etc).
How can I go about getting a button click to change the FLV srouce and begin playback?
And do I need to stop the loading of the previous video, or is that handled automatically?
I've been looking for a tutorial on something like this, but have yet to find it...
Thanks so much!
-Austin

just assign (or re-assign) the source property of your flvplayback instance.

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