This is often caused by digital audio. It takes most digital decoders a little while to start streaming again when a new digital signal comes in. I’ve noticed

This is often caused by digital audio. It takes most digital decoders a little while to start streaming again when a new digital signal comes in. I’ve noticed it in every setup using digital audio output from a PC I’ve ever used. To fix it I believe it’s possible to send encoded complete silence, and that still works to stop the decoder from stopping. I don’t know why there would be a delay, but my guess is that it’s something like waiting for the next “block” of audio to start to start. I’ve noticed when bitstreaming compressed audio formats that the delay is longer, but also a bit arbitrary which I suspect is because the next block start position depends on where exactly you paused the video.