About NOVA Video Player
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,...
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.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of NOVA Video Player since it was posted on our website on 2020-04-30 15:59:51.
The latest version is 6.4.3-20250521.1917 and it was updated on 2026-06-11 18:09:50. See below the changes in each version.
NOVA Video Player version 6.4.3-20250521.1917
Updated At: 2025-05-21
Changes: - 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
NOVA Video Player version 6.3.28-20250202.1933
Updated At: 2025-05-17
Changes: - add pgs subtitles support
- support subtitle position SSA tags
- true passthrough support of TrueHD & DTS:X on FireStick4kMax 2023 (requires nova encapsulation mode 1)
- select proper dolby vision codec based on profile
- add locale setting in nova for devices with restricted language support
- experimental smoother video playback
- 2025 banners
- apply ITU-R BS.775-3 coefficients for stereo downmix
- fix nova use as external player with kodi
- fix 7.1 stereo downmix
- target SDK 34
NOVA Video Player version 6.2.97-20240914.1328
Updated At: 2024-11-24
Changes: - stability enhancements
- fix PIP not working anymore
- revert to ffmpeg 4.4.5 to avoid playback regressions
- add Brazilian language for TMDB video descriptions
- fix traditional Chinese getting English video descriptions
- rationalize Chinese language strings
NOVA Video Player version 6.2.94-20240820.0844
Updated At: 2024-08-19
Changes: - fix PIP not working anymore
- revert to ffmpeg 4.4.5 to avoid playback regressions
- add Brazilian language for TMDB video descriptions
- fix traditional Chinese getting English video descriptions
- rationalize Chinese language strings
NOVA Video Player version 6.2.90-20240707.1832
Updated At: 2024-07-07
Changes: - Fix favorite lang/sub not applied in binge watching mode
- Better scrape for year matching in tvshows
- Add IPv6 address support in network shares
- Many subtitles naming detection fixes
- Fix posters not downloading on old Android version
- Nova icon update for Google Play compliance
NOVA Video Player version 6.2.70-20240503.2030
Updated At: 2024-05-05
Changes: - Fix hide subtitles by default not working regression
- Fix subs not passed to external video player
- Fix posters not downloading on old Android version
- Android TV icon update for Google Play compliance
- Add Android 12 frame rate matching feature support
- Add missing season actors to tv show episode cast
- Scrape shows and movies without air date reported by TMDB
- Fix preferred audio language not applied
- Fix cannot download subs when logged in on opensubtitles.com
NOVA Video Player version 6.2.67-20240413.1552
Updated At: 2024-04-13
Changes: - Android TV icon update for Google Play compliance
- Add Android 12 frame rate matching feature support
- Add missing season actors to tv show episode cast
- Scrape shows and movies without air date reported by TMDB
- Fix preferred audio language not applied
- Fix cannot download subs when logged in on opensubtitles.com
- Propose nova as external player when opening local files
- Fix subtitles download for videos on UPnP shares
- Stability enhancements
NOVA Video Player version 6.2.57-20240209.1608
Updated At: 2024-02-09
Changes: - Propose nova as external player when opening local files
- Fix subtitles download for videos on UPnP shares
- proguard cleanup
- Stability enhancements
NOVA Video Player version 6.2.54-20240129.0911
Updated At: 2024-01-29
Changes: - Add preferred audio language option for multi audio track videos
- Another attempt to fix ftp
- libyuv upstep aligned on chromium master
- Stability enhancements
NOVA Video Player version 6.2.50-20240110.2210
Updated At: 2024-01-10
Changes: - Fix duplicate subs listed in VideoInfo for smbj shares
- Assume writeable directories on jcifs-ng
- Stability enhancements
- Fix F-Droid build
- Update Video information fragment if subtitles have been downloaded during playback or video has changed
- Fix play mode
- Cleaner Android TV years banner
- Better detect external subtitle language from filename
- Faster subtitle check on Android TV
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