VLC: capture device freezing

[tommah04]

hey all,

so I've made a lot of progress getting my easycap 2.0 usb capture device to work with ubuntu 10.10.

I've got the picture up any everything works great. but about a minute into the stream it just freezes, I need to go into "playback" and either pause then play, or click "next", it then refreshes and works again for another minute or so.

any ideas as do why this is? I'd believe it if someone says faulty hardware because the easycap is cheap, but I don't think that's the case.

any help would be great,

*edit*
additionally, is there any way to set VLC so that when I open it, it automatically opens with my video capture device (/dev/video0) so that I don't have to go into the options and change it every time?

Thanks!

[tommah04]

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