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
- 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

Please note that for the application to display and play content, you need to have local video files on your device or add some by indexing network shares.

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

It is the Best player for Android TV, I use for years. The Audio is Great compared to default player, even better than VLC. Download subtitle option is nice and works for most of the titles (Even for regional too). Only problem recently am facing is it's not detecting the new videos loaded on the attached Hard drive. I had to initiate Rescan storage, rescrape manually. Wish it has option to customize the interface background color and tile sizes.

Fantastic application, fast, efficient, technical yet not overwhelming. Great for navigating local libraries on Android devices. Love that it's open source. Issue is sometimes it doesn't play movies on my Google TV device. could be that it's having a hard time parsing the 1TB+ of content, or the video/audio codecs. The same videos play just fine in VLC. So I use NOVA to navigate the content, and VLC to play. Also the play in other app feature does not work and I have to manually swap to VLC

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

- stability enhancements
- fix PIP not working anymore
- revert to ffmpeg 4.4.5 to avoid playback regressions
- add Brazilian language for TMDB video descriptions
- fix traditional Chinese getting English video descriptions
- rationalize Chinese language strings