NOVA Video Player

4.1
10.7K 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 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
May 22, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.1
6.82K reviews
Neelesh Rohidas
November 20, 2022
I usually don't write app feedbacks. I was looking for a media Library app for my personal collection. After year, found this app and installed on my TV. Absolutely fantastic! On the improvement part, there can be a search option. Also, the IMDb ratings can be on the thumbnail of movie poster on right top corner rather than haviyto go inside the movie details and look for it. Overall, very pleased to use this app.
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Vince Ferraro
July 31, 2025
I was looking for a replacement for VLC, and Nova came highly recommended. After trying it out over the last 6 months, I can definitely say it is no VLC. It has difficult time opening network storage, and UPnP support is completely absent. Trying to stream content from a network tuner is a complete no-go. It's a pretty good player if you have content on your device, and I love the ease of changing audio delay to compensate for Bluetooth latency. But I need to be able to access network streams.
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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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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