[reddreddington]

Try:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libva1 <- that's a "1" as in "one" not an "l" as in "Larissa"

Edit: And something else! Don't give up. If you need further help, click here: https://webchat.freenode.net/ enter reddreddington as user and #xbmc-xvba as channel for a live chat.

I entered that on it's own and repeated the whole thing again and it worked.

So I persevered learning the quirks of vi and to my own disbelief of not necessarily knowing what I was doing, it worked a treat.

Thank you so much for your help and stirring me on.

You are a genius.