2player 2.0 - 2play Software

**Moonlight** · 08-22-2013

VLC & XBMC will take y'all mofo's to war! ;D

Lol, just kidding. This looks kewlio, it's great to have so many media option on the OUYA,
and on another note, this also reminds me to update VLC this week, haven't gotten to merging latest
version for a long while xD . Good work guys

**JohnDonovan** · 08-24-2013

Where is it? I can't find it on the Ouya store.

**xAD** · 08-24-2013

Probably at the far end of Sandbox or just Search for it. I swear once things leave the sandbox they're harder to find.

**Jake53** · 08-24-2013

Does this play in background?

**2playerSupport** · 08-25-2013

Originally Posted by Jake53

Does this play in background?

Not by default; but there is a way to do it.

By default, OUYA is configured to not allow background processes; but the setting can be changed. Set the "Background Process Limit" to "At most 3 processes": from the main menu, select "System", then "Advanced", then "Developer Options" (2nd from the bottom), then select "Background Process Limit" (also 2nd from the bottom). Set it to "At most 3 processes" (which is the Android default). It may be a good idea to set "Don't Keep Activities" to false as well. If you choose to do this, please read the "Major Caveats" section at the end of this post, first.

Once that's done, if you double-tap the Options button, to return to the home screen, 2player will continue to play in the background. Note that selecting "Options/Exit", or pressing the back (A) button until 2player quits will stop the currently playing track. You have to double-tap the "Options" button to get this to work.

You can also remotely start tracks and play tracks on 2player for OUYA using a copy of 2player for Android running on an Android phone or tablet, when the background process limit has been set to three processes. This is actually a great feature, and one of the major features of 2player on Google TV: the ability to remotely play music on your TV-connected home-audio system, without having to launch a program on Google TV first. The copy of 2player running on Google TV just starts automatically when the copy of 2player running on your phone or tablet tells it to. 2player on OUYA will do the same thing; but ONLY if OUYA has been reconfigured to allow "at most 3 background processes".

Major caveats: in theory, the Android operating system should automatically trim the background 2player processes if a foreground app runs short of system resources or memory. In practice, running 2player in the background may cause undesirable behavior in some games (jitter and refresh problems in the display). Presumably, OUYA developers changed the background process settings default value to improve consistency of response in foreground applications. So if you do this, and start running into problems with certain games , be prepared to change the setting back. That being said, it's likely to affect only a very small subset of games, and it will probably work most of the time.

Strictly speaking this is an "unsupported" suggestion. Do it at your own risk, and be prepared to suffer potential responsiveness problems with other games. But I would be interested in hearing whether anyone actually runs into problems if they do this.

**Moonlight** · 08-25-2013

Originally Posted by 2playerSupport

Not by default; but there is a way to do it.

First, set the "Background Process Limit" to "At most 3 processes": go to advanced. From the main men, select "System", then "Advanced", then "Developer Options" (2nd from the bottom), then select "Background Process Limit" (also 2nd from the bottom). Set it to "At most 3 processes" (which is the Android default). If you do this, please read the "Major Caveats" section at the end of this post, first.

Once that's done, if you double-tap the Options button, to return to the home screen, 2player will continue to play in the background. Note that selecting "Options/Exit", or pressing the back button until you quit will stop the currently playing track. You have to double-tap the "Options" button to get this to work.

You can also remotely start tracks and play tracks on 2player for OUYA using a copy of 2player for Android running on an Android phone or tablet, when the background process limit has been set to three processes. This is actually a great feature, and one of the major features of 2player on Google TV: the ability to remotely play music on your TV-connected home-audio system, without having to launch a program on Google TV first. The copy of 2player running on Google TV just starts automatically when the copy of 2player running on your phone or tablet tells it to. 2player on OUYA will do the same thing; but ONLY if OUYA has been reconfigured to allow "at most 3 background processes".

Major caveats: in theory, the Android operating system should automatically trim the background 2player processes if a foreground app runs short of system resources or memory. In practice, running 2player in the background may cause undesirable behavior in some games (jitter and refresh problems in the display). Presumably, OUYA developers changed the background process settings default value to improve consistency of response in foreground applications. So if you do this, be prepared to change the setting back. That being said, it's likely to affect only a subset of games, and it will probably work most of the time.

Plays in the BG fine for me ..

And I don't have that selected xD

**Paul Laimal-Convoy** · 09-17-2013

Didn't work for me. It scanned my usb card and internal memory but showed at least 4 copies of each media file and refused to pay any of them.

Obviously, I'm not going to waste my money on this app if the free version is so broken.

I hope it's fixed soon.

**zosa** · 10-09-2013

Thanks. This is a great app. I have it streaming my FLAC audio just fine using a Serviio DLNA server on a Mac Mini on my network. Sadly none of the video seems to work. I've tried a variety of formats (avi, mov, DVD, MPEG-2,...) and I keep getting "Media format not supported". Only the mp4 files seem to work. I've been able to get the others to work with the XBMC app but because the menus are much nicer, I'd like to get these working in 2Player. Any thoughts?