On the plus side, the O!Play HD2 remembers what you played before and where you stopped it previous, so as long as it's in the same place (USB stick, NAS, hard drive etc) then it'll pick up from where you stopped it. What's annoying is that there's no 'skip to time' function or ability to skip in 30 second chunks - instead there's only fast forward up to 32x, which is fast, but not that accurate. All the separate areas, including system setup and movie captions and languages have their own buttons too.

The UI takes a little learning to find your media, but it's pretty straight forward and there's an obvious back button on the remote. What's more, it's very easy to upgrade the firmware - just drop the firmware on USB stick and select the update function from the settings menu. The latest firmware adds quite a lot of extra functions, so again, it's absolutely worth upgrading. It definitely lacks the flashy pizzazz of the QNAP NMP-1000P, but at least it's functional and all the features we tried worked. Without the hard drive inside the fan doesn't spin up, so the O!Play HD2 sits there silently, as it should.ĪSUS O!Play HD2: SoftwareOn the software front and the O!Play HD2 is pretty vanilla.

You know how buzzing mosquitoes can annoy you no end in a quiet room? It's like that, except there's a jar full of them. On the back sits a small and very whiny fan that fires up when the internal temperature gets too hot - which is almost exclusively when we had the drive installed. We tested the O!Play HD2 with and without a hard drive inside and for your sanity do NOT use one. Blue and black always work together quite nicely, but if 'yet another media player with a blue LED' is not your cup of tea then at least it can be easily turned off in the settings menu. Fired up this becomes a much brighter blue, which is only annoying if you're slouched on the sofa directly opposite. FLAC lossless, APE and NRG are rather niche or can at least be converted, but BDMV/BD-ISO, 3GP, ASS and IDX subtitle files are arguably more mainstream, depending on what you watch and how you backup your media.ĪSUS O!Play HD2: Hardware TestingPlugging in the O!Play HD2 you're met with a bar of dim, red LED along the front. Subtitle: SRT, SUB, SMI, SSA, TXT(SRT), TXTĪsus covers all the popular file types so the vast majority of users needs are covered, but it does miss a few compared to other devices such as the QNAP NMP-1000P.

Audio: MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG, FLAC, AIFF, Dolby Digital AC3, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS Digital Surround, Tag ID3, Dolby True HD (Passthrough), Dolby True HD (downmix).Asus O!Play HD2: Hardware and Software Supported A/V playback formats include:

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