NOVA Video Player

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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 “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.
Updated on
May 22, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

3.9
7.79K reviews
Paul Taylor
January 29, 2024
Loving this app! So far it's proving to be a great alternative to Kodi. My only issue is that I wish there were better options when searching for subtitles. A couple of movies have come up saying no subtitles were found but I can see them on Open Subtitles website. It'd be handy if I could just select from a list of near matches. Otherwise, the rest of the app's pretty good.
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Celia Balfour
August 28, 2020
This is such a fantastic app! I recently got an android tv, and I was finding it difficult to access the video library on my external drive. I tried several other apps before this one, and they were annoying to use, and the players were constantly freezing. Nova, on the other hand, is awesome. I love the way the videos are displayed as posters. My video library has never looked more appealing! Nice job!
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Christopher Nordin
May 13, 2020
So intuitive and feature rich. If your files are named correctly this app will catalog, add posters, show a summary, give access to trailers and so much more. I mount a Samba share and never have connection issues. Once in the Library, it's easy to find your media. Even though this app is free, after using it for months, I would pay good money for it. Try this app and it will satisfy all your needs.
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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