mplayer – disable LIRC

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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: <br /> mplayer: could not connect to socket<br /> mplayer: No such file or directory<br /> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.<br /> Well all you need to do to is to disable LIRC support by doing the following: