NOVA Video Player

4.3
11.2K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
USK: All ages
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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.
Updated on
May 21, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.2
7.06K 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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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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Senthilnathan C
August 1, 2025
Hi team, Thanks for developing Nova Player. I really enjoy using it! I'd like to request a feature: the ability to **choose and sync an external audio file (from internal storage) with a video**. This is useful when the audio and video are in separate files (e.g., custom language tracks or improved audio sources). It would be great if users could: - Select an audio file manually (e.g., .mp3, .aac) from the file manager. - Sync it with a currently playing video. Please consider adding this in
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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