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Open-source video player for local, USB, network, and server-based media, with hardware decoding, subtitle support, and movie and TV library browsing. The latest version improves HDR playback and decoder selection and adds Dolby Vision Profile 9 support.
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About this app
Nova is an opeN sOurce Video plAyer designed for tablets, phones and AndroidTV devices.
Universal player:
Play videos from your computer, server (FTP, SFTP), 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 Anti-Features: Tracking (the application tracks and reports your activity to somewhere – usually either without your consent, or by default (i.e. you’d have to actively disable it)): ⇒ The app might send detailed crash reports including stack traces to Nova developers private sentry.io instance in order to improve application quality.
📄 License Apache License Version 2.0
What's new
Improve HDR playback: correct MediaCodec color signaling, forward HDR static metadata and respect the display's HDR support *Add support for Dolby Vision Profile 9 (AVC) with SDR fallback *Improve hardware decoder selection by ranking decoders and retrying other eligible ones on failure *Fix duration and resume position for MPEG-TS files *Fix video timestamps for files with multiple video tracks *Keep ASS/SSA subtitles on screen when the video overflows the display (Fit width, portrait Fit) *Speed up startup by running network initialization at normal thread priority
About this version
- Version
- 6.6.4-20261104.0822 (2674303)
- Size
- 33.35 MB
- Requires Android
- 6.0
- Target SDK
- 23
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 16
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2026
- Package
- org.courville.nova
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