Movie Player opens on startup

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Please try to check the System → Preferences → Startup Applications of your system...

Hope this helps

I am facing the same problem.And NO its not on my startup list nor is the option to automatically remember applications when logging out .
I dont see any options on movie player either.

I have attached screenshots here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/414932

Can you open a terminal are run

ls -l ~/.config/autostart

Are there any problems listed in this folder?

What happens if you list

ls -l ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/

And for measure what is in ~/.config/totem ?

Sorry if this seems like an obvious question, but are you certain that you are shutting the computer down and not just going into Hibernate or Suspend mode?

You indicated that you watched the song then "shut down as normal" but this begs two questions: Shut down what? Totem or the computer?

and

What is your "normal" method of shutting down your computer. For some people, "normal" means hitting the power switch on the front. On most PCs that goes into either Hibernate or Suspend mode. The PC appears off but actuall saves what it was doing either to RAM or to a hard disk file and goes to sleep. On restart, it loads what was running before the power button was pressed. Hence, if you didn't explicitly close Totem and in fact hit the power button, then Totem was still running (albeit with a song that ended) when the PC went to sleep. On wake-up, the PC restarts Totem and the song it was playing.

Bottom line: Make sure you properly close Totem, then use the Mouse to select "shutdown" and nothing else. Then let us know if the problem persists.

Sorry if I wasn't being clear enough.But i am doing the same thing as you stated in Bottom Line.

before you shutdown the system can you run:

ps -ef | grep tote

if its there then kill it. Then reboot to test. If there are any processes lurking around for totem then they will be saved in your session and pop up next boot

varun@varun:~$ ps -ef | grep tote
varun 9785 9719 0 17:04 pts/0 00:00:00 grep tote
varun@varun:~$ kill 9719
varun@varun:~$ ps -ef | grep tote
varun 9792 9719 0 17:04 pts/0 00:00:00 grep tote
varun@varun:~$

Am i killing it the wrong way because as you can see the process still persists.

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

i am killing the totem during startup.
Thanks anyways.