Kodi is not working smoothly

[karanda]

Hi all,


Yesterday I had some spare time and switched from RaspBMC to Xbian, after I read some posts that claimed that Xbian was stable and fast. However, stability could be improved as well as performance.

I use a Raspberry Pi B rev. 2, via Ethernet added is a USB 2.0 flash drive (that does noething so far.) and I cannot access Video Streams (neither youtube app nor streaming-app).

I've already tried overclocking the Pi to Turbo mode. This changes nothing but the temperature.

Are there any tips or tricks to improve performance&stability so that a daily use is possible and makes fun?
I'm currently thinking of going back to OpenELEC, which is not the best choice since I want my Pi to deal with my external HDD, as soon as I've found a powered usb-hub.

During the installation process:
1) change from dhcp to static ip was not possible.
2) samba could not be disabled.

USB Installation:
1) Boot seemed slower than from sd card --> some posts say that usb is faster, some claim that it's slower ...
2) I started using dd, because I did not know about the back up -solution first.
3) The backup solution did not create a stable running usb version of XBIAN.

any help would be appreciated,
enjoy your weekends,
karanda