I did the upgrade of my Asus O!Play last month.
It is great to have so many features on it and keep add new features when upgrading.
I have written a post about how to Upgrade O!Play firmware. It is helpful. Because I saw lots of people doing the search and landed on my post to get the guide of upgrading.
Let us see what is new in 1.29N firmware.


Actually I upgrade my Asus O!Play from 1.24N to 1.29N.
From 1.24 to 1.28
1.Add 5000 Internet TV Channels
2.Add RSS News
3.Add stock inquiry
4.Add support for wireless headset (only ASUS HS-1000W is capable for current)
5.Add support for external optical disk drive with homemade VCD/DVD (only ASUS SDRW-0D1S-U is capable for current)
From 1.28 to 1.29
1.Add support for Dolby TrueHD/DDP downmix
2.Fix it can’t play some files from AV out when set Audio digital out as SPDIF LPCM
Download link of Asus O!Play firmware 1.29N

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4 Replies to “Upgrade Asus o!play firmware to 1.29N

  1. I got hdp-r3 yesterday. Everything looks fine, except I cannot make internet radio/TV to work. If I ask for all list of stations, I only get internet error.
    firmware is 1.28, tried with 1.29 also. Any thoughts?

  2. I got hdp-r3 yesterday. Everything looks fine, except I cannot make internet radio/TV to work. If I ask for all list of stations, I only get internet error.
    firmware is 1.28, tried with 1.29 also. Any thoughts?

  3. I have recently purchased Asus O play media player HDP-R3 and when i am trying to watch any kind of movie with my hard drive or pendrive , the media player keeps on restarting. I dont know what to know do. So do i return it or do i update a new firmware. and my current firmware is Rev:01.21P
    Please help me its urgent.

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