This is probably "safer". Without it, we will play 1 sample, because the
logic was written in a way to decode 1 sample if audio is paused. 1
sample usually will initialize the audio PTS, but not play any real
audio. Also see previous commit.
In ancient times, this actually used 1 byte (instead of 1 sample), so
clearly no sample was written, unless the audio was 8-bit mono.