On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 08:56:12AM -0200, x9p wrote: > If someone can give it a try, I had found no solution to free the sound > device or to kill a > mpv zpmbie process. > > Inside a tmux panel, while playing any audio/video, hit CTRL+Z . Then you > will not be able to > resume the process with fg, neither kill it, and it will lock the sound > device until next > reboot. After suspending it, the mpv process will be stopped, indicated by ps(1) with the T state.
Sending a SIGCONT signal continues the mpv process which will eventually exit.