[Bug 20277] Elder Scrolls: Oblivion slowdown and loss of background music since introduction of mpg123

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20277

--- Comment #18 from Austin English   2010-02-10 10:55:44 ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> This bug persists for me with wine 1.1.38.
> I do not have /usr/lib/winemp3.acm.so.
> The WINEDEBUG=+mpeg3 trick did not work for me.
> Oblivion is completely unplayable.
>
> I am using wine on a 64bit Gentoo system, so this might also be a
> gentoo-specific bug. I will report this on the Gentoo bugtracker later.
> Perhaps you could tell me whether it is normal that /usr/lib/winemp3.acm.so is
> missing or not, so I can tell the Gentoo developers?

Presumably they're disabling mp3 support, possibly because of patent issues.
Check is the '--without-mpg123' configure option is being used.