libmp3lame.so -- where?

[James Green <debian@cyberstorm.demon.co.uk>]

I've been battling to make 'vcr' work for some time now, and it's
moaning about a lack of libmp3lame.so at runtime.

The library is allegedly found in lame, which isn't in Debian. I
downloaded the source tarball, created a deb from it, only to find it
only creates libmp3lame.a, not .so. I looked at converting, and it looks
fairly horrible.

The library is apparently also in avifile, which is broken:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  avifile: Depends: libqt2.2-mt (>= 2:2.2.3-3) but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages

I do have installed libavifile, and toolame, but neither provide the
lib.

I have also tried compiling 'vcr' from source deb without any luck. In
my .vcrrc fwiw:
codec = DivX ;-) low-motion
attributes= BitRate=1600,Crispness=100


Need help please!!

Cheers

James Green