I made the downgrade harder than it needed to be because when I went to search for 'libavcodec52' I misspelled it, and thought the only place it was available was from the multimedia repository. Well, live and learn.
On a third machine I took multimedia repository out of apt sources then successfully installed (on a third machine) 'libavcodec52', 'libavformat52' and 'libavformat49' (needed by the codec52 library) from Debian works fine so far. I suspect I won't be getting as many orange ball 'updates available' from update-notifier as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org