I can confirm that the workaround in #9 does the trick, but only if you keep it in "Audio only" mode. If I try swiching it to Mode -> "Audio & Video", it crashes. So it won't work with video. I added tags stating that this is a regression; it used to work for me pre-Oneiric.
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