How to properly unload/destroy a VIDEO element

Question

I\'m working on a realtime media browsing/playback application that uses objects in the browser for playback, when available.

I\'m using a

Answer 1

This is what I did to solve this problem. I created 2 video elements (video1 & video2). After finished using video1, get the source(src) attribute value and then remove video1 from DOM.

Then set video2 source (src) to whatever value you got from video1.

Do not use stream from video1 as it is cached in memory.

Hope this will help.