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.
Video player for local/network content with subtitle/metadata download support
Updated on
Sep 25, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

8.24K reviews
DazZa
November 2, 2026
The app scanned my whole local device unprompted and added videos that I never wanted indexed. The user guide solution is a nomedia file which would brick the apps I actually want to see those files. This single failure point renders this app useless. Allow users to set what they want indexed.
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Nick Quaintmere
October 24, 2026
A great way of accessing and visually displaying your own collection of movies locally and remotely. Unfortunately the search function only works for titles. Despite its excellent ability to scrape metadata for films, there is no option to search via this data. Without an option to search for actors, directors, genres, etc. any large collection is no longer navigable. It's incredible to me that anyone could leave such fundamental functionality out of a media app.
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Andrey PA
August 14, 2026
it was working until summer 2026, after that something happened on android TV. It just keeps loading and nothing happens. I'm guessing an update is due.
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Courville Software
August 15, 2026
Where are your files located? If your server is SMBv1 only please uncheck SMBv2 option in nova settings since it became the default option. I will try to implement autoprobe in next release.

What’s new

- ffmpeg 9.0.1 upstep
- fix jcifs-ng SMB preventing video playback
- Add provisional video end time on OSD
- Intro/outro auto-skip feature in player menu
- Fix locale issues with SMB credentials and host navigation
- Add option to ignoring leading articles in alphabetical title sorting
- Fix Trakt resume position conflict handling
- Restore SAMBA SMBv1 server compatibility by protocol level detection
- Smarter TV show and movie media scraping
- Many stability enhancement