NOVA Video Player

4.0
10.6K reviews
1M+
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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 “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 21, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.1
6.75K 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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4EverAloneGamer
June 17, 2025
There’s no option to play video audio in the background, and the screen orientation doesn’t automatically switch to portrait mode. It doesn’t support audio files—only limited to video formats. I could almost call it a good player, but the settings are also very limited. All of this gets in the way of a smooth experience
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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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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