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

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

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.

Using this on my Sony Bravia 65inch 4k TV. No better video player on the market. It recognizes and plays every format. Netflix/Prime style interface, meaning it doesn't have a boring style menu that just list the movies/series you have on yr hdd. It rather provides the icon/wallpaper of the different shows you have including a complete synopsis. When subtitles are needed it downloads them in under 2 seconds. Perfect companion to yr storage device that's connected to yr TV!!!

What's new

- Fix favorite lang/sub not applied in binge watching mode
- Better scrape for year matching in tvshows
- Add IPv6 address support in network shares
- Many subtitles naming detection fixes
- Fix posters not downloading on old Android version
- Nova icon update for Google Play compliance