diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 6bf89b3733..4a0b19f213 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -178,9 +178,10 @@ Optional features:
   --enable-fribidi       Enable using the FriBiDi libs [disabled]
   --disable-macosx       Disable Mac OS X specific features [autodetect]
   --disable-inet6        Disable IPv6 support [autodetect]
-  --disable-gethostbyname2
-                         gethostbyname() is not provided by the C library [autodetect]
+  --disable-gethostbyname2  gethostbyname() function is not provided by the C
+                            library [autodetect]
   --disable-ftp          Disable ftp support [enabled]
+
 Codecs:
   --enable-gif		 enable gif support [autodetect]
   --enable-png		 enable png input/output support [autodetect]
@@ -202,7 +203,7 @@ Codecs:
   --enable-matroska      build with Matroska support [autodetect]
   --enable-faad          build with FAAD2 (MP4/AAC) support [autodetect]
   --disable-libdv        disable libdv 0.9.5 en/decoding support [autodetect]
-  --disable-mad          disable libmad (mpeg audio) support [autodetect]
+  --disable-mad          disable libmad (MPEG audio) support [autodetect]
   --enable-xmms          build with XMMS inputplugin support [disabled]
   --enable-external-faad build with external libfaad [disabled]
   --enable-flac          build with FLAC support [autodetect]
@@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ Video output:
   --enable-sdl           build with SDL render support [autodetect]
   --enable-aa            build with AAlib render support [autodetect]
   --enable-ggi           build with GGI render support [autodetect]
-  --enable-directx       build with Directx support [autodetect]
+  --enable-directx       build with DirectX support [autodetect]
   --enable-dxr2          build with DXR2 render support [autodetect]
   --enable-dxr3          build with DXR3/H+ render support [autodetect]
   --enable-dvb           build with support for output via DVB-Card [autodetect]
@@ -268,14 +269,14 @@ Miscellaneous options:
                          default and you want to point to the GNU version)
 
 Advanced options:
-  --enable-mmx           build with mmx support [autodetect]
-  --enable-mmx2          build with mmx2 support (PIII, Athlon) [autodetect]
-  --enable-3dnow         build with 3dnow! support [autodetect]
-  --enable-3dnowex       build with 3dnow-dsp! support (K7) [autodetect]
-  --enable-sse           build with sse support [autodetect]
-  --enable-sse2          build with sse2 support [autodetect]
-  --disable-fastmemcpy   disable 3dnow/sse/mmx optimized memcpy() [enable]
-  --disable-big-endian   Force byte order to little endian [autodetect]
+  --enable-mmx           build with MMX support [autodetect]
+  --enable-mmx2          build with MMX2 support (PIII, Athlon) [autodetect]
+  --enable-3dnow         build with 3DNow! support [autodetect]
+  --enable-3dnowex       build with extended 3DNow! support [autodetect]
+  --enable-sse           build with SSE support [autodetect]
+  --enable-sse2          build with SSE2 support [autodetect]
+  --enable-altivec       build with Altivec support (PowerPC) [autodetect]
+  --disable-fastmemcpy   disable 3DNow!/SSE/MMX optimized memcpy() [enable]
   --enable-big-endian    Force byte order to big endian [autodetect]
   --enable-debug[=1-3]   compile debugging information into mplayer [disable]
   --enable-profile       compile profiling information into mplayer [disable]
@@ -305,16 +306,16 @@ Use these options if autodetection fails:
                            (e.g. /opt/lib/libxvidcore.a)
   --with-sdl-config=PATH   path to sdl*-config (e.g. /opt/bin/sdl-config)
   --with-freetype-config=PATH  path to freetype-config
-                           (e.g. /opt/bin/freetype-config)
+                               (e.g. /opt/bin/freetype-config)
   --with-gtk-config=PATH   path to gtk*-config (e.g. /opt/bin/gtk-config)
   --with-glib-config=PATH  path to glib*-config (e.g. /opt/bin/glib-config)
   --with-livelibdir=DIR    path to LIVE.COM Streaming Media libraries
-  --with-xmmsplugindir=DIR path to xmms plugins
+  --with-xmmsplugindir=DIR path to XMMS plugins
   --with-xmmslibdir=DIR    path to libxmms.so.1
   --with-cdparanoiaincdir=DIR  cdparanoia headers in DIR
   --with-cdparanoialibdir=DIR  cdparanoia libraries (libcdda_*) in DIR
   --with-fribidi-config=PATH  path to fribidi-config
-                           (e.g. /opt/bin/fribidi-config)
+                              (e.g. /opt/bin/fribidi-config)
 
 EOF
     exit 0