Nova Video Player icon
Nova Video Player icon

Nova Video Player

NOVA is an open source video player for Android. It consists in a fork of the original Archos Video Player Community Edition.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Android  Android 5.0 and up
  • Android Tablet  Android 5.0 and up
  • Android TV
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Works Offline
  5.  Video DB indexing

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Nova Video Player information

  • Developed by

    FR flagCourville Software
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
  • Alternatives

    31 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Video & Movies

GitHub repository

  •  4,221 Stars
  •  232 Forks
  •  767 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Nova Video Player, and it has gotten 11 likes

Nova Video Player was added to AlternativeTo by Malaz YI on and this page was last updated .

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lesm
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Nova Video Player is the only media player that works ok in my Sony Bravia TV.

Dave
1

Using this as a Mizuu replacement.

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What is Nova Video Player?

NOVA is an open source video player for Android. It consists in a fork of the original Archos Video Player icon Archos Video Player Community Edition.

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