NOVA Video Player

4.2
10.3K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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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 ā€œleanbackā€ 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.
Updated on
May 21, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.0
6.64K reviews
Cleon Czeiner
June 8, 2025
The best media player out there, I guarantee it! No bot here.. 5 stars I use this application for all my media consumption. I download a movie/Mp4 on my 1TB SD plug up and the Nova software automatically picks it up gives me a poster the trailer and the information that comes with can even change the background look up each and every individual TV show or movie Once selected where is the option to search for subtitles for the movies that is not in English automatically online once selected 5st
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Kathy Smith
March 29, 2021
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
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Venkatesh R (ą®µąÆ†ą®™ąÆą®•ą®ŸąÆ‡ą®·ąÆ R)
August 10, 2024
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.
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What’s new

- target SDK 35, raise min SDK to 23 (Android 6.0)
- blacklist recycle bins on popular NAS
- fix audio delay picker focus on Android TV
- new subtitle title format
- upgrade ffmpeg to 7.1.1 and dav1d to 1.5.1
- fix external player stopping after a while
- stability enhancements