Comment 4 for bug 1218510

Still occurs in 14.04 /w gmplayer 1.1 /w mplayer 1.1 and 2.0
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$ gmplayer
MPlayer 1.1-4.8 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
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.
Error in skin config file on line 6: PNG read error in /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/main
Config file processing error with skin 'default'

Exiting... (Fatal error)
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mplayer-gui version: 2:1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu3
mplayer2 version: 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2
also tried with mplayer version: 2:1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu3