Showing a video: which package works best?

[Knapp]

Try running with nice set to -20.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix)

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Less then an hour ago, I posted you this question:
>
>> this Friday evening I need to publicly show a video via a beamer. So, I need to use a safe package I can rely on.
>> Who has practical video show experience with VLC, Dragon Player or any other package?
>
>
> Now, I need to reformulate this question.
>
> About one hour ago, I tried both VLC and Dragonplayer while Kontact,
> akonadi and  virtuoso were still running. The film had a lot of
> hiccups because Kontact, akonadi and virtuoso "eat"  often all the
> available CPU.
> A few minutes ago, I disabled Nepomuk, Virtuoso and Kontact. After
> doing so, both VLC and Dragonplayer worked perfectly well.
>
> Nepomuk I switched off via SYSTEM SETTINGS > desktop search. Kontact
> and Virtuoso, I 'killed' via the "system activity"  window from the
> panel.
> My question is now: are these measures enough to make sure that not
> any process will interfere the film at some moment?
>
> I would appreciate getting one or a few answers to this question.
>
> Respectfully yours,
>
> Bas Roufs.
>
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