NOVA Video Player

NOVA Video Player

Video player for local/network content with subtitle/metadata download support

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Description

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: Nexus Player, NVidia SHIELD TV, Rockchip and AmLogic based TV-boxes
- 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

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.

Anti-features

Properties of this app that are worth knowing about before installing.

  • NonFreeNet

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
6.4.3 current
c8b06c2d5a97c3ea…
2025-05-24 79 MB API 23
6.3.28
031fcd22f66bb352…
2025-02-06 78 MB API 21
6.3.26
5ee5e70c2e22a463…
2025-02-03 78 MB API 21

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK
  • USB_PERMISSION
  • Audio settingsAdjust volume and audio output.
  • Bluetooth connectionConnect to paired Bluetooth devices.
  • Display over other appsDraw content on top of other apps.
  • Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
  • Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
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  • Write storageCreate and change files on the device storage.
  • PhotosRead images from the media library.
  • MusicRead audio files from the media library.
  • VideosRead videos from the media library.
  • Read storageRead files on the device storage.
  • NotificationsShow notifications.
  • Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
  • Wi-Fi stateRead information about the Wi-Fi connection.
  • Change Wi-FiTurn Wi-Fi on and off or switch networks.
  • CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE
  • BROADCAST_STICKY
  • Run at startupStart automatically after the device is switched on.
  • providers.tv.permission.READ_EPG_DATA
  • providers.tv.permission.WRITE_EPG_DATA
  • MicrophoneRecord audio.
  • nova.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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