NOVA Video Player

3.8
9.92K reviews
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Content rating
Rated for 3+
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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
Feb 3, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.1
6.49K reviews
Alexey Anischenko
December 1, 2020
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!
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Å iÅ” MiÅ”
February 16, 2025
The interface has very little customization. For some reason you cant remove the sidebar once the phone is turned to its side. You cant remove movie names to only keep the posters etc. You cant have a minimalist aesthetic for example. Which is such a shame because the movie posters could make such a cool, clean aesthetic and that info you get once you click on it is such a nice touch. It has a lot of potential, I pray for an update. šŸ™
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Aashu Redmi
February 18, 2025
I have a 49" Android smart TV on which I had VLC Media Player installed. I used to watch movies stored on extern. HDD in MKV, MP4 formats using VLC. It used to freeze often. Audio would go on but video would freeze. Then I was looking for a REPLACEMENT of VLC and I gambled on NOVA PLAYER and I must say it has been a bliss, a sheer win. It's better than VLC and doesn't freeze. Plus the UI is almost same but better. Automatically adding of INFO & Thumbnails is brilliant. Makes movie watching GR8.
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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