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In http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ we can read this: 18/06/2008 : Broken ffmpeg libraries : Since Debian use the same soname packages name than my packages, official packages (vlc, totem, etc...) linked against libavc* doesn't work with my libavc* packages. If you want to use vlc and friends you n...

I had the same problem with vlc 0.8.6.e-2.3+b1 in debian-testing and solved it as follows: -- Uninstall vlc and all its dependencies. -- Remove all installed packages from the repository www.debian-multimedia.org with Synaptic. -- Remove www.debian-multimedia.org from my sources.list. -- Update the ...