Can I have a working VLC in Lenny, and transcode, and ffmpeg?

[Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>]

Hi all,
       on lenny i386 I use VLC for viewing and ripping ffflash - which
works fine.
I'd like to install transcode and ffmpeg without pulling in libavutil*
from debian-multimedia.org (which previously has broken VLC).
For reasons too lengthy to list here - I do not want to use something as
a replacement for VLC.
Thanks in advance for constructive advice.

Cheers