diff --git a/libavcodec/snow.c b/libavcodec/snow.c
index 86bf4f1b23..8c79709e57 100644
--- a/libavcodec/snow.c
+++ b/libavcodec/snow.c
@@ -434,7 +434,6 @@ typedef struct Plane{
 }Plane;
 
 typedef struct SnowContext{
-//    MpegEncContext m; // needed for motion estimation, should not be used for anything else, the idea is to eventually make the motion estimation independent of MpegEncContext, so this will be removed then (FIXME/XXX)
 
     AVCodecContext *avctx;
     RangeCoder c;