diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 0f286c7f4..47743dca5 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -238,48 +238,6 @@ if test "$with_ffmpeg" != "no"; then
 fi
 
 
-if test "$with_ffmpeg" = "yes"; then
-
-AC_ARG_ENABLE(broken-mp3, [  --enable-broken-mp3     Enable the use of FFMPEG w/out LAME compiled in.])
-  AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether ffmpeg has LAME compiled in])
-  aegisub_save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
-  AC_LANG(C)
-  LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $AVCODEC_LDFLAGS"
-  AC_RUN_IFELSE(
-    [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <ffmpeg/avcodec.h>],
-    [
-      avcodec_register_all();
-      if (avcodec_find_encoder_by_name("libmp3lame"))
-        return 1;
-    ])
-  ],
-  ffmpeg_mp3_broken="yes",
-  ffmpeg_mp3_broken="no")
-
-  LDFLAGS="$aegisub_save_LDFLAGS"
-  AC_LANG(C++)
-fi
-
-if test $ffmpeg_mp3_broken = "yes"; then
-  AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
-  AC_MSG_NOTICE([
-***********************************************************************
-* Your installation of FFMPEG does not have LAME support compiled in.
-* This will result in _broken_ mp3 decoding, either recompile FFMPEG
-* with LAME support, or supply --enable-broken-mp3 (With this you will have
-* to demux the audio, convert to wav and load the audio/wav seperately.)
-*   * LAME can be found at: http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php
-***********************************************************************
-  ])
-echo "enable_broken_mp3: $enable_broken_mp3"
-  if test "$enable_broken_mp3" != "yes"; then
-    AC_MSG_FAILURE([Please read.])
-  fi
-else
-  AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
-fi
-
-
 AC_SUBST(SWSCALE_LDFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(AVCODEC_LDFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(AVFORMAT_LDFLAGS)