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On Ubuntu 12.04 the default Movie Player has hanged on a frame while playing a (faulty?) mkv video. I tried to close it by right click > close but could not terminate it. It also does not start when I try to play a new video.



How can I kill the process from command line?


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You should be able to use:



pkill totem


A generally helpful thing to find which processes are hogging the CPU is top:
top screenshot
then you can press k and type in the PID of the process, and then press Enter twice to kill it;



Another program that can do this is htop:
htop screenshot
This can also system resources being used, and processes can be killed by selecting them, pressing k, and then pressing Enter. Parent processes can also be found by pressing t to toggle tree view.


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