diff --git a/src/xenia/apu/xma_decoder.cc b/src/xenia/apu/xma_decoder.cc
index aaa0edf90..0c73236db 100644
--- a/src/xenia/apu/xma_decoder.cc
+++ b/src/xenia/apu/xma_decoder.cc
@@ -7,8 +7,11 @@
  ******************************************************************************
  */
 
-#include "xenia/apu/xma_context.h"
 #include "xenia/apu/xma_decoder.h"
+
+#include <gflags/gflags.h>
+
+#include "xenia/apu/xma_context.h"
 #include "xenia/base/logging.h"
 #include "xenia/base/math.h"
 #include "xenia/base/ring_buffer.h"
@@ -46,6 +49,8 @@ extern "C" {
 // do this, it's likely they are either passing the context to XAudio or
 // using the XMA* functions.
 
+DEFINE_bool(libav_verbose, false, "Verbose libav output (debug and above)");
+
 namespace xe {
 namespace apu {
 
@@ -55,11 +60,9 @@ XmaDecoder::XmaDecoder(cpu::Processor* processor)
 XmaDecoder::~XmaDecoder() = default;
 
 void av_log_callback(void* avcl, int level, const char* fmt, va_list va) {
-#ifdef NDEBUG
-  if (level > AV_LOG_WARNING) {
+  if (!FLAGS_libav_verbose && level > AV_LOG_WARNING) {
     return;
   }
-#endif
 
   char level_char = '?';
   switch (level) {