If it turns out to be a Pi bottleneck, you can just re-encode the videos with a lower quality and h.264 codec.
I have a similar setup but my nfs server is not a mini pc.
You could try diagnosing if it's the network or if your mini pc is too busy (maybe out of disk i/o?).
If that's too hard, temporarly stop all other programs on the mini pc. Does it help?
Does streaming something from the internet to kodi work without freezes? If it's ok, then network is likely not the issue
Last but not least, does playing the same video from an USB stick work smoothly? If not, maybe the quality is too high or the video is x265
2nd comment with the same typo, are you using dictation?
Woah, that would be so great. I love your idea.
Which of these should we be excited about? The dex sounds interesting but I barely understand the others.
Haha, the horrors of trying to fix a bug in OpenOffice flash before my eyes
The curl author writes a lot about his struggles, but he's also employed to maintain curl, so not really a good example
XMPP. It just works, requires very little resources, is stable and has decent clients.
I would go with Snikket instead of Prosody if I had been starting now.
Conversations on phones, Dino or Gajim on PCs, plus a conversejs install on the xmpp server, to allow web access when needed.
Conversations is easy for the family to figure out.
Now another 7 years and 24 "please rebase this old code" requests before it's merged
Yaay, space for 24 more apartment buildings!
Try LSD. It's like being a kid again.
I remember these times, then I started buying hardware with 1st class Linux support. Highly recommend when it's time to upgrade!