1. mplayer – disable LIRC

    Been trying to use mplayer from the shell on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) and LIRC was giving my problems, but I couldn’t find any help with the following mplayer error:

    mplayer: could not connect to socket
    mplayer: No such file or directory
    Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

    Well all you need to do to is to disable LIRC support by doing the following:

    Edit

    sudo vim /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

    And put in the line:

    nolirc=yes

    And that should sort it out.

    By timc3 on the
    February 10th, 2009

6 Comments

  1. it works. thank you.

    wuzhez Says:
    August 23rd, 2009 at 11:52 am
  2. Finally! I’ve been looking for this all over the web! Thank you!

    Camaguey Says:
    February 25th, 2010 at 2:51 am
  3. Thanks a lot. It solved my problem again.

    Steven Tuxfield Says:
    April 25th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
  4. nice! thx

    nanashi Says:
    May 4th, 2010 at 7:27 am
  5. Still helps people!

    Of course, I’ve added this to my ~/.mplayer/config ([defaults] section) instead of global one.

    Lam Says:
    March 26th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
  6. Dont Work(?)

    Makako Says:
    August 17th, 2011 at 8:38 pm

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