NOVA Video Player

4.2
9.95K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
PEGI 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
6.5K reviews
Alfred Newman
November 21, 2024
This app was brilliant for playing stuff on my Google TV, however it seems that now everything I play stutters without exception. I'm assuming that it's maybe a recent update as it has worked flawlessly before. I managed to update the software and now it works flawlessly the developer contacted me when I emailed all in all I'm happy with it in all respect changing review giving 5 stars it's a very good free video player & works well with my NAS drives and the TV.
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Emrys Raydes
October 26, 2020
Could Be Amazing. It has everything I want in a player for my Shield TV, as it has an optimised app for Android TV. However, I found the setting to make it play my whole folder, but it just won't. It will play one episode and stop. Doesn't even have a skip button to skip to the next video file while the end credits are rolling. That makes it a complete miss for me, and when I first tried it out I was really impressed, too bad, back to VLC and it's lackluster features.
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tj pearson
December 17, 2022
Update: Great app was the headline of my original review but here is an update. The app is on my TV T95 box and has slowly developed more and more issues, one being crackling sound. I've installed latest version hoping to fix now find I can't sign into Trakt account. I suspect it's the latest problem where developers can't leave anything alone & make things worse. Such a shame because this really was the equivalent to Windows Media Portal at one time, sadly now it is not, try Kodi it works bril.
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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