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Open-source video player for phones, tablets, and Android TV, with playback from local, USB, and network sources, subtitle support, and a unified media library. The latest update improves Dolby Vision playback and subtitle positioning.
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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
・Add Dolby Vision profile 5 playback on devices without a Dolby Vision decoder, with GPU color reshaping ・Convert Dolby Vision profile 7 to 8.1 automatically and strip HDR10+ for better compatibility (#1980) ・Fall back to standard HDR decoding when Dolby Vision is unavailable, and warn when colors may be wrong ・Pass Dolby Vision static HDR metadata to the display ・Fix colors of Dolby Vision profile 5 thumbnails ・Improve Dolby Vision decoder selection and stability ・Notify users when hardware video decoding falls back to software ・Keep subtitles on screen in Fit width and portrait Fit/Auto modes when the video overflows the screen thanks @pratikpatel8982) ・Keep PGS/VobSub subtitles clear of the player controls and system bars (thanks @pratikpatel8982) ・Add a vertical position setting for PGS/VobSub subtitles thanks @pratikpatel8982) ・Hide the subtitle style sample when there is no track or the format is unsupported thanks @pratikpatel8982) ・Prefer the file name/path over the embedded metadata title when identifying videos online (#1987) ・Exclude Telegram and other messenger media folders from the library ・Speed up Samba discovery and avoid running it twice at startup
About this version
- Version
- 6.6.5-20261111.1224 (2674922)
- Size
- 34.03 MB
- Requires Android
- 6.0
- Target SDK
- 23
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 14
- Updated
- Nov 11, 2026
- Package
- org.courville.nova
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