Mplayer Makes Terminal Cursor Idle

Hi,
A weird problem just came up recently. I would start mplayer from the a terminal (eg. xterm), and after I close mplayer the cursor in the terminal stays idle when I type anything. I could still issue commands and new lines still work, but whatever I type won't appear. It's kind of like typing password in command line. This happens with many terminal emulators (xterm, mrxvt, gnome-terminal, etc.) Any idea what's wrong?
Thanks!
Will

I've noticed that too, but I don't know what's wrong. My workaround is to stop it from the terminal (Ctrl+C) instead of closing the mplayer window.

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