mplayer / amd patch

[Russell McOrmond]

jeff wrote:
> In October a freshrpms user reported a problem with AMD + mplayer + mp3 
> = noise. I have a user reporting the exact same thing and the workaround 
> works for him too:
> 
> http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2006-October/014263.html 

   Do we know whether the mplayer team is working on this?  The 
workaround was to comment out to large chunks of assembly code -- it 
seems odd to me that just removing code would "fix" the problem.

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