Jessie/amd64 VLC crashes on WMV playback

For the last couple of weeks, I have lost the ability to play WMV files in VLC.

I get the following error when starting the player from the console:

$vlc file.wmv
VLC media player 2.1.5 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5)
[0xf24118] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[wmv3 @ 0x7fa04cc21d20] Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
*** Error in `vlc': free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007fa04cc26cd8 ***
Aborted

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Marty