Video playback: Audio crackles and stutters every second

Another approach - have you tried to connect your phone to a computer and play back a local file with it stored on the phone?

If it stutters as well there may be a problem with your filesystem.
Do you have a sd card installed?
Formated as external or internal memory?

You write it’s only the audio, not the video affected.
Have you tried a form of ear buds or headphones for listening?