birdywa wrote:This has created a new problem; apparently lame resides in debian multimedia and going through this process has removed it. I tried to put the multimedia repo back in and upgrade, but in addition to adding lame back, it wanted to revert all those packages I replaced. How do I get mp3 and avi working at the same time?
It's a big mess right now in Lenny as there are two versions of lame, 3.97 and 3.98. Some applications depend on specific versions and you can't have both installed at the same time (well, not via the package manager, but you could compile one, install to /usr/local and symlink). I had a look at the debian-multimedia repos for Sid and Lenny and they're not so different so I enabled the Sid repo for multimedia only, not the regular Debian repos, and upgraded and added most of the stuff that had been uninstallable previously. It worked fine, I now have ffmpeg, Totem-xine, Xine, mplayer, lame, dvdrip, ogmrip and soundconverter all working fine. As for VLC I'm resigned to simply waiting it out.