Installed an mplayer rpm from RPMForge repository (mplayer.i386 1.0-0.40.svn20090711.el5.rf) to my CentOS 5 server. I was setting up a bash script to decode and encode several media files. Everytime mplayer was called from the script, I would get the following useless warnings:

MPlayer SVN-r29417-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
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.


It was building up my logs. So I put the following two lines in my mplayer configuration file at /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf:
nolirc=yes
nojoystick=yes

And like linux magic, the errors on each load disappear.