VLC Telnet plays laggy audio

  • Installation methodHome Assistant OS
  • Core2026.8.1
  • Supervisor2026.07.5
  • Operating System18.2
  • Frontend20260729.6

I have home assistant flashed and running on a raspberry pi 4 using the RaspberryPi Imager. It connects to my bluetooth sensors just fine, controls my AC well and manages my solar backup just fine. I am installed the VLC app to play some audio I uploaded when some automations are triggered.

When I start a song though the Telnet speaker, its laggy for the first 4-15 seconds as if it was buffering. When it’s done having its short pauses, the audio seems just fine and plays normally for the rest of the song. I found re-winding the song actually cuts out the buffering and the song plays with no issues at all.

What could it be that I am doing wrong? The speaker is fine, the file is fine.