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 24, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

8.21K reviews
Makurafa
October 15, 2023
Huge fan ever since i discovered it. Used it on my old phone a lot and kinda forgot about it for a while. Glad i rediscovered it, and to see it is still well maintained ^⌣^ An absolute dream come true would be a way to set it as default media player? Like so that other apps can discover it, for example when trying to share an mp4 file or something like that? And just a way for all video files to open in this one without the system prompt asking you for which app to use. Maybe as a paid feature?
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Anthony Arthur Fun
August 16, 2026
This is good as you can even can subtitle if the movies is not in your language. So far it also work well with 4k movies. App also provided you with the movies info. Ang 16 2026 I have taken the step to disable SMB V2. Problem resolved! I'm able to stream movies from my media server again! Rating back to 5 Star! Thank you Developer!
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Courville Software
August 15, 2026
Where are your videos stored? If this is an SMBv1 server, you should deactivate the SMBv2 nova option which became default version.
Martin Ishu
September 2, 2026
I don't know if it's a bug with the current update, the folder with my media in it shows up as empty in the media player, it was perfectly ok before. I will rate it a 4 cos it checked all the boxes before the malfunction.
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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