vlc is broken after upgrading

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

I dist-upgraded my Debian testing system yesterday, and now I cannot
view video files.  It appears that the upgrade of libva to version
1.0.3-1 has killed all non-Flash video on my machine.  I know that there
is no simple way to downgrade via apt (the Achilles heel of Debian,
IMO), but is there another way to sort this sort of thing out?  Do I
remove the offending package and reinstall the previous, non-broken
library?  Any advice would be welcome.  Thanks!
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yours,

William

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