Ipod touch is acting strange

Here are the specifics. I've had this 1st generation for a long time with no problems at all save this last week. It began when the ipod started randomly pausing music and video playback. Not crashing but pausing. I figured it may have something to do with the fact that my headphones had a bit of a short and that may have been responsible. The problem, however, persisted even after I used different head phones. On top of that it seems that the ipod had also decided to no longer work with the AV cables. It had been working for no problem until these las 2 or three days. I can still get audio but no longer do I get video. I am naturally very worried because it's going from being perfectly fine to having the technological equivalent of kidney failure.
It will still play video and music and the apps run fine. I've tried all the usual things with a full restore, updated to the most recent version and all that. I tried cleaning the connections with tweezers and a tiny paper towel. I hadn't dropped it and I just need to know whether or not it could be something fixable or if it's dead.

Could be. Try the following to rule out a software problem:
- Reset.
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to fasctory defaults/new iPod.
If still problem then yu likely have a hardware problem.

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Hey DerikK,
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