zombie mplayer processes

[mkvguy]

I'm running the beta 1.20.400 under Fedora Linux with mplayer from svn.

My problem is that after browsing videos (mostly mkv files with srt subtitles) and generally playing a few movies during the weekend, I end up with several mplayer "zombie" processes in the background.

I noticed them because after I've shut down my playstation and PS3MS, doing a "ps ax" by accident I discovered the mplayer processes in the background.

Next weekend I played around with my videos, I did a "ps ax" just to check and lo and behold, there were a few zombie mplayer processes again.

Anyone can help me debug the issue?

[mkvguy]

I have tracked the issue to thumbnails only. Since the zombie mplayer processes are trying to render thumbnails.

[chocolateboy]

Issue 680: Patch to kill processes cleanly