Playing Content
The FreePlay player fills the screen and is built for TV remotes. It plays videos and image slides from a provider, a downloaded lesson, a plan, or your announcements folder, and it moves through them on its own or at your pace.
Before You Begin
- Pick something to play. See Browsing and Downloading Content, Plan Mode, or Announcements
- Press Start to open the player
Screens paired to a calendar use a separate scheduled player with slightly different controls. See Scheduled Playback on the TV.
Player Controls
Use your TV remote to control playback:
| Remote Button | Action |
|---|---|
| Select / Play-Pause | Pause or resume |
| Right arrow | Skip to the next slide or video |
| Left arrow | Go back to the previous slide or video |
| Fast Forward | Jump ahead 10 seconds in a video. On a slide, go to the next item |
| Rewind | Jump back 10 seconds in a video. On a slide, go to the previous item |
| Up arrow | Open Select a Message to jump to a specific item |
| Down / Back | Exit the player |
You can also swipe on touch-enabled remotes. Swipe left to go forward, swipe right to go back, swipe down to open Select a Message, and swipe up to exit the player.
Videos and Slides
When you pause, a pause icon appears over the content. Press Select or Play-Pause again to resume.
Videos move to the next item when they finish. A video that is set to loop repeats until you skip ahead.
Image slides move on by themselves after a few seconds (5 seconds unless the provider sets its own timing). Press the Right arrow to move on sooner, or pause to hold a slide on screen.
Select a Message
Press Up during playback to open Select a Message. It shows every item with a thumbnail and title, and marks the one that's playing as NOW PLAYING. Move to any item and press Select to jump straight to it. Press Back to close it without changing anything.
Exiting the Player
Press Down or Back on your remote to leave the player. Where you end up depends on what you were playing:
- Provider content - Back to the content browser
- A plan - Back to the plan download screen. See Plan Mode
- A download - Back to the Downloads screen
The screen stays awake while the player is open, so the TV won't go to sleep in the middle of a lesson.
Related Articles
- Browsing and Downloading Content - Find content and download it for offline play
- Scheduled Playback on the TV - Remote controls for screens that follow a calendar