Nova Video Player icon
Nova Video Player icon

Nova Video Player

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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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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • FR flagFrance
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Android  Android 5.0 and up
  • Android Tablet  Android 5.0 and up
  • Android TV
5 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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2comments
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  Works Offline
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  No Tracking
  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.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    28 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Video & Movies

GitHub repository

  •  3,971 Stars
  •  220 Forks
  •  676 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 6, 2025 
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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 Jul 18, 2019 and this page was last updated Jun 30, 2024.

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Top Positive Comment
Dave
Nov 25, 2019
1

Using this as a Mizuu replacement.

lesm
May 8, 2023
0

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

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