I used the following workaround, but I think the altivec handing code in swscale.c should be cleaned up. I see that debian/patches/040_only_use_maltivec_when_needed.diff introduced some really ugly code that introduced this breakage.
-- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/
--- a/libswscale/swscale_internal.h~ 2007-10-19 16:02:53.000000000 +0000 +++ b/libswscale/swscale_internal.h 2007-10-19 16:03:36.000000000 +0000 @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ #ifndef SWSCALE_INTERNAL_H #define SWSCALE_INTERNAL_H +#if defined (RUNTIME_CPUDETECT) && defined (CONFIG_GPL) +#define HAVE_ALTIVEC +#endif + #ifdef ABI_ALTIVEC #ifdef HAVE_ALTIVEC_H #include <altivec.h>
