NOVA Video Player

Courville Software

About this app

Nova is an opeN sOurce Video plAyer designed for tablets, phones and AndroidTV devices.available at https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP

Universal player:
- Play videos from your computer, server (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV), NAS (SMB, UPnP)
- Play videos from external USB storage
- Videos from all sources integrated in a unified multimedia collection
- Automatic online retrieval of movie and TV show descriptions with posters and backdrops
- Integrated subtitle download

Best player:
- Hardware accelerated video decoding for most devices and video formats
- Multi-audio tracks and mutli-subtitles support
- Supported file formats: MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, etc.
- Supported subtitle file types: SRT, SUB, ASS, SMI, etc.

TV friendly:
- Dedicated “leanback” user interface for Android TV
- AC3/DTS passthrough (HDMI or S/PDIF) on supported hardware: Nexus Player, NVidia SHIELD TV, Rockchip and AmLogic based TV-boxes
- 3D support with side-by-side and top-bottom formats playback for 3D TVs
- Audio Boost mode to increase the volume level
- Night Mode to dynamically adjust the volume level

Browse the way you want:
- Instant access to recently added and recently played videos
- Browse movies by name, genre, year, duration, rating
- Browse TV shows by seasons
- Folder browsing supported

And even more:
- Multi-device network video resume
- NFO metadata processing for descriptions and posters
- Scheduled rescan of your network content (Leanback UI only)
- Private mode: temporarily disable playback history recording
- Manually adjust subtitles synchronization
- Manually adjust audio/video synchronization
- Track what your collection and what you have watched via Trakt

In case you have an issue or a request about this app, please check our Reddit support community at this address: https://www.reddit.com/r/NovaVideoPlayer

If you experience any issue with video hardware decoding you can force software decoding in the application preferences.

You are welcome to contribute to the translation of the application at https://crowdin.com/project/nova-video-player

NOVA stands for opeN sOurce Video plAyer.

Ratings and reviews

One of the very few video players that: 1. Works properly with SMB2 Win10 network shares, secured by username/pass creds, properly browsing shared folders and files. The only other ones that I know of are Vimu and latest versions of MX. 2. Works properly on Android TV, including network browsing. (MX is a big joke, no network browsing UI on Android TV). Note for devs: please add shuffle (m.b. tunable folder-by-folder using some ".shuffle" flag file), and the ability to resume playback on last not-yet-played file and inside the stopped-in-the-middle file (or is it there already?) - and your player wil be the all time absolute best!

I was really loving this app, right up until I tried to create a playlist to watch two related shows in the order I chose. Nova changed Trakt playlist order to alphabetical. When you try to play it just takes you to the folder of the episode. If I wanted to play one show in full then the next I'd play them through the TV Show section. Make a playlist that I choose the order and it plays in that order and I might come back. VLC might be not as nice to use but at least it has playlists.

Bada$$ app love this app ^5 to the developers. I have had plex for years but the audio in playback is awful voices are so low explosions are to loud. I wanted a app to stream my library to my firesticks. This app works great even has meta data just index and it loads the cover art. I have used this on my tablet firesticks and phones. Be nice if I could share my library outside my network like plex but still this app is great 👍 and no Ads even better! Oh and it has audio boost too.

What's new

- Fix hide subtitles by default not working regression
- Fix subs not passed to external video player
- Fix posters not downloading on old Android version
- Android TV icon update for Google Play compliance
- Add Android 12 frame rate matching feature support
- Add missing season actors to tv show episode cast
- Scrape shows and movies without air date reported by TMDB
- Fix preferred audio language not applied
- Fix cannot download subs when logged in on opensubtitles.com