AndroidTV - Stuttering audio continue while paused

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AndroidTV - Stuttering audio continue while paused - lilajka - 2025-11-08

Hello,
I have an issue with AndroidTV playback with Jellyfin. Whenever any media is paused, the audio continues choppy still. When unpaused, the video skips to that audio.
This issue occurs just on AndroidTV. Web and iOS clients work correctly. I noticed that this issue reduces a bit (but still happens) when I disable "Prefer FFmpeg for audio playback" in AndroidTV client developer settings.
My server side settings are pretty much default, the only thing I configured is Hardware acceleration.

AndroidTV client:
client: Jellyfin for Android TV
client_version: 0.19.2

JellyFin server:
Server version: 10.11.2
Web version: 10.11.2
Build version: 10.11.2

Host:
Running in k3s cluster on ASUS NUC host:
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS x86_64
Host: NUC14MNK-B2 90AR00M2-M000F0
Kernel: 6.14.0-29-generic
CPU: Intel N150 (4) @ 3.600GHz
GPU: Intel Graphics
Memory: 3627MiB / 15597MiB

When using external player (Kodi) the issue is not present, but I would prefer to use native JellyFin app.
Issue showcase: https://streamable.com/ohrcbk

Logs:
upload_Jellyfin Android TV_0.19.2_20251107130010_07f5f2ddad1d4544932ad713152368f6.log
log_20251108.log
FFmpeg.DirectStream-2025-11-08_12-54-36_ba3ad267bcce4126858da297d9c48608_dce67202.log
FFmpeg.DirectStream-2025-11-08_12-54-35_ba3ad267bcce4126858da297d9c48608_c3f17dee.log

system.xml

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<ServerConfiguration xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <LogFileRetentionDays>3</LogFileRetentionDays>

  <IsStartupWizardCompleted>true</IsStartupWizardCompleted>

  <EnableMetrics>false</EnableMetrics>

  <EnableNormalizedItemByNameIds>true</EnableNormalizedItemByNameIds>

  <IsPortAuthorized>true</IsPortAuthorized>

  <QuickConnectAvailable>true</QuickConnectAvailable>

  <EnableCaseSensitiveItemIds>true</EnableCaseSensitiveItemIds>

  <DisableLiveTvChannelUserDataName>true</DisableLiveTvChannelUserDataName>

  <MetadataPath />

  <PreferredMetadataLanguage>en</PreferredMetadataLanguage>

  <MetadataCountryCode>US</MetadataCountryCode>

  <SortReplaceCharacters>

    <string>.</string>

    <string>+</string>

    <string>%</string>

  </SortReplaceCharacters>

  <SortRemoveCharacters>

    <string>,</string>

    <string>&amp;</string>

    <string>-</string>

    <string>{</string>

    <string>}</string>

    <string>'</string>

  </SortRemoveCharacters>

  <SortRemoveWords>

    <string>the</string>

    <string>a</string>

    <string>an</string>

  </SortRemoveWords>

  <MinResumePct>5</MinResumePct>

  <MaxResumePct>90</MaxResumePct>

  <MinResumeDurationSeconds>300</MinResumeDurationSeconds>

  <MinAudiobookResume>5</MinAudiobookResume>

  <MaxAudiobookResume>5</MaxAudiobookResume>

  <InactiveSessionThreshold>0</InactiveSessionThreshold>

  <LibraryMonitorDelay>60</LibraryMonitorDelay>

  <LibraryUpdateDuration>30</LibraryUpdateDuration>

  <CacheSize>200</CacheSize>

  <ImageSavingConvention>Legacy</ImageSavingConvention>

  <MetadataOptions>

    <MetadataOptions>

      <ItemType>Book</ItemType>

      <DisabledMetadataSavers />

      <LocalMetadataReaderOrder />

      <DisabledMetadataFetchers />

      <MetadataFetcherOrder />

      <DisabledImageFetchers />

      <ImageFetcherOrder />

    </MetadataOptions>

    <MetadataOptions>

      <ItemType>Movie</ItemType>

      <DisabledMetadataSavers />

      <LocalMetadataReaderOrder />

      <DisabledMetadataFetchers />

      <MetadataFetcherOrder />

      <DisabledImageFetchers />

      <ImageFetcherOrder />

    </MetadataOptions>

    <MetadataOptions>

      <ItemType>MusicVideo</ItemType>

      <DisabledMetadataSavers />

      <LocalMetadataReaderOrder />

      <DisabledMetadataFetchers>

        <string>The Open Movie Database</string>

      </DisabledMetadataFetchers>

      <MetadataFetcherOrder />

      <DisabledImageFetchers>

        <string>The Open Movie Database</string>

      </DisabledImageFetchers>

      <ImageFetcherOrder />

    </MetadataOptions>

    <MetadataOptions>

      <ItemType>Series</ItemType>

      <DisabledMetadataSavers />

      <LocalMetadataReaderOrder />

      <DisabledMetadataFetchers />

      <MetadataFetcherOrder />

      <DisabledImageFetchers />

      <ImageFetcherOrder />

    </MetadataOptions>

    <MetadataOptions>

      <ItemType>MusicAlbum</ItemType>

      <DisabledMetadataSavers />

      <LocalMetadataReaderOrder />

      <DisabledMetadataFetchers>

        <string>TheAudioDB</string>

      </DisabledMetadataFetchers>

      <MetadataFetcherOrder />

      <DisabledImageFetchers />

      <ImageFetcherOrder />

    </MetadataOptions>

    <MetadataOptions>

      <ItemType>MusicArtist</ItemType>

      <DisabledMetadataSavers />

      <LocalMetadataReaderOrder />

      <DisabledMetadataFetchers>

        <string>TheAudioDB</string>

      </DisabledMetadataFetchers>

      <MetadataFetcherOrder />

      <DisabledImageFetchers />

      <ImageFetcherOrder />

    </MetadataOptions>

    <MetadataOptions>

      <ItemType>BoxSet</ItemType>

      <DisabledMetadataSavers />

      <LocalMetadataReaderOrder />

      <DisabledMetadataFetchers />

      <MetadataFetcherOrder />

      <DisabledImageFetchers />

      <ImageFetcherOrder />

    </MetadataOptions>

    <MetadataOptions>

      <ItemType>Season</ItemType>

      <DisabledMetadataSavers />

      <LocalMetadataReaderOrder />

      <DisabledMetadataFetchers />

      <MetadataFetcherOrder />

      <DisabledImageFetchers />

      <ImageFetcherOrder />

    </MetadataOptions>

    <MetadataOptions>

      <ItemType>Episode</ItemType>

      <DisabledMetadataSavers />

      <LocalMetadataReaderOrder />

      <DisabledMetadataFetchers />

      <MetadataFetcherOrder />

      <DisabledImageFetchers />

      <ImageFetcherOrder />

    </MetadataOptions>

  </MetadataOptions>

  <SkipDeserializationForBasicTypes>true</SkipDeserializationForBasicTypes>

  <ServerName>jellyfin-k3s</ServerName>

  <UICulture>en-US</UICulture>

  <SaveMetadataHidden>false</SaveMetadataHidden>

  <ContentTypes />

  <RemoteClientBitrateLimit>0</RemoteClientBitrateLimit>

  <EnableFolderView>false</EnableFolderView>

  <EnableGroupingMoviesIntoCollections>false</EnableGroupingMoviesIntoCollections>

  <EnableGroupingShowsIntoCollections>false</EnableGroupingShowsIntoCollections>

  <DisplaySpecialsWithinSeasons>true</DisplaySpecialsWithinSeasons>

  <CodecsUsed />

  <PluginRepositories>

    <RepositoryInfo>

      <Name>Jellyfin Stable</Name>

      <Url>https://repo.jellyfin.org/files/plugin/manifest.json</Url>

      <Enabled>true</Enabled>

    </RepositoryInfo>

  </PluginRepositories>

  <EnableExternalContentInSuggestions>true</EnableExternalContentInSuggestions>

  <ImageExtractionTimeoutMs>0</ImageExtractionTimeoutMs>

  <PathSubstitutions />

  <EnableSlowResponseWarning>true</EnableSlowResponseWarning>

  <SlowResponseThresholdMs>500</SlowResponseThresholdMs>

  <CorsHosts>

    <string>*</string>

  </CorsHosts>

  <ActivityLogRetentionDays>30</ActivityLogRetentionDays>

  <LibraryScanFanoutConcurrency>0</LibraryScanFanoutConcurrency>

  <LibraryMetadataRefreshConcurrency>0</LibraryMetadataRefreshConcurrency>

  <AllowClientLogUpload>true</AllowClientLogUpload>

  <DummyChapterDuration>0</DummyChapterDuration>

  <ChapterImageResolution>MatchSource</ChapterImageResolution>

  <ParallelImageEncodingLimit>0</ParallelImageEncodingLimit>

  <CastReceiverApplications>

    <CastReceiverApplication>

      <Id>F007D354</Id>

      <Name>Stable</Name>

    </CastReceiverApplication>

    <CastReceiverApplication>

      <Id>6F511C87</Id>

      <Name>Unstable</Name>

    </CastReceiverApplication>

  </CastReceiverApplications>

  <TrickplayOptions>

    <EnableHwAcceleration>false</EnableHwAcceleration>

    <EnableHwEncoding>false</EnableHwEncoding>

    <EnableKeyFrameOnlyExtraction>false</EnableKeyFrameOnlyExtraction>

    <ScanBehavior>NonBlocking</ScanBehavior>

    <ProcessPriority>BelowNormal</ProcessPriority>

    <Interval>10000</Interval>

    <WidthResolutions>

      <int>320</int>

    </WidthResolutions>

    <TileWidth>10</TileWidth>

    <TileHeight>10</TileHeight>

    <Qscale>4</Qscale>

    <JpegQuality>90</JpegQuality>

    <ProcessThreads>1</ProcessThreads>

  </TrickplayOptions>

  <EnableLegacyAuthorization>true</EnableLegacyAuthorization>

encoding.xml

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<EncodingOptions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <EncodingThreadCount>-1</EncodingThreadCount>

  <EnableFallbackFont>false</EnableFallbackFont>

  <EnableAudioVbr>false</EnableAudioVbr>

  <DownMixAudioBoost>2</DownMixAudioBoost>

  <DownMixStereoAlgorithm>None</DownMixStereoAlgorithm>

  <MaxMuxingQueueSize>2048</MaxMuxingQueueSize>

  <EnableThrottling>false</EnableThrottling>

  <ThrottleDelaySeconds>180</ThrottleDelaySeconds>

  <EnableSegmentDeletion>false</EnableSegmentDeletion>

  <SegmentKeepSeconds>720</SegmentKeepSeconds>

  <HardwareAccelerationType>qsv</HardwareAccelerationType>

  <EncoderAppPathDisplay>/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg</EncoderAppPathDisplay>

  <VaapiDevice>/dev/dri/renderD128</VaapiDevice>

  <QsvDevice>/dev/dri/renderD128</QsvDevice>

  <EnableTonemapping>false</EnableTonemapping>

  <EnableVppTonemapping>false</EnableVppTonemapping>

  <EnableVideoToolboxTonemapping>false</EnableVideoToolboxTonemapping>

  <TonemappingAlgorithm>bt2390</TonemappingAlgorithm>

  <TonemappingMode>auto</TonemappingMode>

  <TonemappingRange>auto</TonemappingRange>

  <TonemappingDesat>0</TonemappingDesat>

  <TonemappingPeak>100</TonemappingPeak>

  <TonemappingParam>0</TonemappingParam>

  <VppTonemappingBrightness>16</VppTonemappingBrightness>

  <VppTonemappingContrast>1</VppTonemappingContrast>

  <H264Crf>23</H264Crf>

  <H265Crf>28</H265Crf>

  <EncoderPreset xsi:nil="true" />

  <DeinterlaceDoubleRate>false</DeinterlaceDoubleRate>

  <DeinterlaceMethod>yadif</DeinterlaceMethod>

  <EnableDecodingColorDepth10Hevc>true</EnableDecodingColorDepth10Hevc>

  <EnableDecodingColorDepth10Vp9>true</EnableDecodingColorDepth10Vp9>

  <EnableDecodingColorDepth10HevcRext>false</EnableDecodingColorDepth10HevcRext>

  <EnableDecodingColorDepth12HevcRext>false</EnableDecodingColorDepth12HevcRext>

  <EnableEnhancedNvdecDecoder>true</EnableEnhancedNvdecDecoder>

  <PreferSystemNativeHwDecoder>true</PreferSystemNativeHwDecoder>

  <EnableIntelLowPowerH264HwEncoder>false</EnableIntelLowPowerH264HwEncoder>

  <EnableIntelLowPowerHevcHwEncoder>false</EnableIntelLowPowerHevcHwEncoder>

  <EnableHardwareEncoding>true</EnableHardwareEncoding>

  <AllowHevcEncoding>false</AllowHevcEncoding>

  <AllowAv1Encoding>false</AllowAv1Encoding>

  <EnableSubtitleExtraction>true</EnableSubtitleExtraction>

  <HardwareDecodingCodecs>

    <string>h264</string>

    <string>vc1</string>

    <string>hevc</string>

    <string>av1</string>

    <string>vp9</string>

    <string>vp8</string>

    <string>mpeg2video</string>

  </HardwareDecodingCodecs>

  <AllowOnDemandMetadataBasedKeyframeExtractionForExtensions>

    <string>mkv</string>

  </AllowOnDemandMetadataBasedKeyframeExtractionForExtensions>

k3s deployment.yaml

Code:
apiVersion: apps/v1

kind: Deployment

metadata:

  name: jellyfin

  namespace: media

  labels:

    app: jellyfin

spec:

  replicas: 1

  strategy:

    type: Recreate

  selector:

    matchLabels:

      app: jellyfin

  template:

    metadata:

      labels:

        app: jellyfin

    spec:

      # Pin to the node with iGPU (same pattern you use for Jellyfin)

      nodeSelector:

        kubernetes.io/hostname: asusnuc

      # Make /dev/dri accessible and ensure file/group ownership inside the pod

      securityContext:

        fsGroup: 1100

        supplementalGroups:

          - 44    # video

          - 992  # render

      containers:

        - name: jellyfin

          securityContext:

            privileged: true

            seccompProfile:

              type: Unconfined

            appArmorProfile:

              type: Unconfined

          image: jellyfin/jellyfin:10.11.2

          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent

          env:

            - name: PUID

              value: "1100"

            - name: PGID

              value: "1100"

            - name: GIDLIST

              value: "44,992"

            - name: TZ

              value: "Europe/Bratislava"

            - name: UMASK

              value: "022" 

            - name: LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME

              value: iHD

          ports:

            - containerPort: 80

              name: http

            - containerPort: 7359

              name: http-udp

          volumeMounts:

            - name: config

              mountPath: /config

            - name: movies

              mountPath: /data/Movies

            - name: tvshows

              mountPath: /data/TVShows

            - name: dev-dri

              mountPath: /dev/dri

          livenessProbe:

            httpGet: { path: /health, port: 8096 }

            periodSeconds: 10

            timeoutSeconds: 5

            failureThreshold: 3

          readinessProbe:

            httpGet: { path: /health, port: 8096 }

            periodSeconds: 5

            timeoutSeconds: 5

            failureThreshold: 6

          startupProbe:

            httpGet: { path: /health, port: 8096 }

            periodSeconds: 5

            timeoutSeconds: 5

            failureThreshold: 60

          resources:

            requests:

              cpu: "200m"

              memory: "512Mi"

            limits:

              cpu: "2"

              memory: "4Gi"

          securityContext:

            privileged: true

            allowPrivilegeEscalation: true

            readOnlyRootFilesystem: false

            seccompProfile: { type: Unconfined }

      volumes:

        # Config on host for easy backup (matches your /k3s-data pattern)

        - name: config

          persistentVolumeClaim:

            claimName: jellyfin-config

        - name: tvshows

          persistentVolumeClaim:

            claimName: sonarr-tvshows-host

        - name: movies

          persistentVolumeClaim:

            claimName: radarr-movies-host

        - name: dev-dri

          hostPath:

            path: /dev/dri

            type: Directory

Thanks for help!