SOLVED: Bluetooth connection prevents playback

[Karlsmith]

Jellyfin 0.17.8 on the Google TV Streamer 
Jellyfin.Server 10.10.0-1 (Arch Linux)

On the Google TV Streamer (GTV), Jellyfin videos that play fine when no Bluetooth earbuds are connected, fail with too many errors when they are connected. The only difference is that Samsung Earbuds2 pro are connected.

I did find a workaround. If I start playing the video without the buds connected, then pause the video, connect the buds (which happens automatically without leaving the video) then rewind to the beginning, then they work as expected and audio/video are in sync.

This started about a month ago, recent server update to 10.10.0 didn't make a difference. Some videos, even though they are both in .mkv containers, one might work and one exhibits the problem. Those are exceptions most videos in the library that I checked have problems.

Earbuds work fine elsewhere, Jellyfin app on Roku device works fine. Also, Amazon Prime videos on the GTV streamer work no problem. The earbuds work with the same videos through the Kodi app. on the GTV streamer.

No other BT devices connected.

I've tried stopping, clearing the cache/data, and deleting/reinstalling. Looking at the GTV debug output, which just acknowledges the stop. Google Nest community felt it was a Jellyfin issue.
Jellyfin Server log showing successful start (10:27) then stop of video without Earbuds. Then with Earbuds (10:29):

Code:

[color=#ffffff][2024-11-02 10:27:21.689 -10:00] [INF] User policy for "moke". EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True
[2024-11-02 10:27:34.202 -10:00] [INF] Playback stopped reported by app "Android TV" "0.17.8" playing "Cent'anni". Stopped at "11104" ms
[2024-11-02 10:28:13.080 -10:00] [INF] WS "192.168.1.175" closed
[2024-11-02 10:28:13.389 -10:00] [INF] WS "192.168.1.175" request
[2024-11-02 10:29:10.906 -10:00] [INF] User policy for "moke". EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True
[2024-11-02 10:29:11.792 -10:00] [INF] Playback stopped reported by app "Android TV" "0.17.8" playing "Cent'anni". Stopped at "0" ms
[2024-11-02 10:29:11.810 -10:00] [INF] User policy for "moke". EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True
[2024-11-02 10:29:13.047 -10:00] [INF] Playback stopped reported by app "Android TV" "0.17.8" playing "Cent'anni". Stopped at "0" ms
[2024-11-02 10:29:13.052 -10:00] [INF] User policy for "moke". EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True
[2024-11-02 10:29:13.312 -10:00] [INF] "/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg" "-analyzeduration 200M -probesize 1G -fflags +genpts -f matroska  -i file:\"/seabak/Jellyfin2/Shows/The Penguin (2024)/the.penguin.s01e04.1080p.web.h264-successfulcrab.mkv\" -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -start_at_zero -codec:a:0 copy -copyts -avoid_negative_ts disabled -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -f hls -max_delay 5000000 -hls_time 6 -hls_segment_type mpegts -start_number 0 -hls_segment_filename \"/var/cache/jellyfin/transcodes/f688e75ea0da669fb1764bb5d02dc044%d.ts\" -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_list_size 0 -y \"/var/cache/jellyfin/transcodes/f688e75ea0da669fb1764bb5d02dc044.m3u8\""
[2024-11-02 10:29:13.819 -10:00] [INF] Stopping ffmpeg process with q command for "/var/cache/jellyfin/transcodes/f688e75ea0da669fb1764bb5d02dc044.m3u8"
[2024-11-02 10:29:13.871 -10:00] [INF] FFmpeg exited with code 0
[2024-11-02 10:29:13.871 -10:00] [INF] Deleting partial stream file(s) "/var/cache/jellyfin/transcodes/f688e75ea0da669fb1764bb5d02dc044.m3u8"
[2024-11-02 10:29:15.406 -10:00] [INF] Playback stopped reported by app "Android TV" "0.17.8" playing "Cent'anni". Stopped at "0" ms
[2024-11-02 10:29:47.968 -10:00] [INF] WS "192.168.1.175" closed
[2024-11-02 10:29:48.254 -10:00] [INF] WS "192.168.1.175" request[/color]

FFmpeg log attached.

thanks in advance