Error added: 2008-09-10T20:10:09Z
If killing mplayer won\'t fix, try stopping mythtv, that can screw things up :L sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop Thank god for ubuntu forums :)
killall mplayer worked for me. There were other processes still opening it.
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