VLC, realtime priority and rtkit

Question

How can I increase the priority of VLC to some realtime level? The realtime setting inside of VLC does not seem to have any effect. I figure it nowerdays (on a modern Linux system, not a from scratch system) involves rtkit.

I have already tried using vlc-wrapper and setting this to +s.

Plus I figure that most of the time my system is "sluggish", this involes heavy memory usage. Is there any way to priorize memory for VLC?

Any pointers?

Answer 1

Have you tried changing nice level with the nice command?

nice -0 vlc

if it works you can put it in a bash-script and create an alias to vlc, so it will always start with nice 0