AndroidTV - Stuttering audio continue while paused

[lilajka]

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!