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

Love, this app! Wanted to thank the developer(s) for creating & continuing to support it! Because I have an unusually large collection of movies, tv shows etc. it takes a very long time for the app to find the info tags & sort all the videos, however I absolutely love using it. I occasionally accidentally delete the data instead of the cache & have a couple of days worth of reorganizing to do. That is 100% my fault. My only grip is it doesn't always save where I left off nor put in recently watc

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.

This is a good substitute for the Plex app, if you occasionally want to play local media. Plex doesn't scrape Metadata for local files. BUT... Nova can't natively send video to a Chromecast. So you have to "open with" and select something to play the file with that DOES support casting... like VLC. That one feature would make this a five-star app, heck I'd even pay for it, but until then it's just a fancy front end.

What's new

- add pgs subtitles support
- support subtitle position SSA tags
- true passthrough support of TrueHD & DTS:X on FireStick4kMax 2023 (requires nova encapsulation mode 1)
- select proper dolby vision codec based on profile
- add locale setting in nova for devices with restricted language support
- experimental smoother video playback
- 2025 banners
- apply ITU-R BS.775-3 coefficients for stereo downmix
- fix nova use as external player with kodi
- fix 7.1 stereo downmix
- target SDK 34