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NOVA is an opeN sOurce Video plAyer designed for Android devices (tablets, phones and TVs).
This application is based on a fork of Archos Video Player open-source release, intended to support new features with an enhanced stability.
NOVA is published on GooglePlay or on Amazon Appstore or on F-Droid or directly on github. +
NOVA is published on GooglePlay or on Amazon Appstore or on F-Droid or on IzzyOnDroid or directly on github. Latest changes are tracked here.
Please note that NOVA is free and consists in a small community effort done on personal time.
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@Current default SMB implementation based on jcifs-ng is known to have difficulties to play high bitrate videos. smbj is an alternate SMB implementation pwhich erforms better but only supports SMB servers with protocol version higher than 2, i.e.: SMB1 will not work with smbj.
-When adding/browsing a webdav network shortcut, you need to fill the following dialog inputs:
/dav
)/dav
).SRT, SUB subtitles are supported. SSA support is rudimentary. PGS subs are not yet supported.
-If you get an empty blue screen at application start, just reboot your device to get in a sane state.
-Please check if you have enabled private mode which prevents resume points to be recorded.
-Nova is able to play video files sequentially by choosing a play mode. This option is selectable when playing the video in one of the accessible menus. The various available play modes are:
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@Trakt can report that there is no Internet connection when you use specific adblocking or a Pi-hole. In order to overcome this issue you need to whitelist these domains:
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@Dolby Vision and HDR support on AndroidTV depends on your TV capabilities, AV receiver passthrough compatibility and TV box hardware specification. This multifactor dependency is prone for confusion.
@@ -170,23 +170,37 @@Dolby Vision requires specific HW support and TV box constructor in certain cases have to pay a specific license to benefit from this feature. This is the case for Amlogic S905Xx based hardware. Cheap chinese non certified hardware might not fullfil this requirement.
-It can happen that the bottom and top bars instead of being black are with a greyish color and that video seems to have a kind a veil that makes the image washy.
+ +This is due to a wrong HDMI display mode selected that has a color space not compatible with the video color format.
+ +In order to overcome the issue, on some hardware (e.g. nvidia shield), you can disable the adaptive refresh rate on nova and force the display mode to be used going through Android setting in display/audio->advanced to match color space to content color format one.
+ +Most often the washy colors happen using RGB8 and not with YUV420 (RGB/8/Rec.709 NOK, YUV420/8/Rec.709 OK, YUV422/12/Rec.2020/hdr OK, YUV422/10/Rec.2020/hdr OK).
+ +One can check the compatible display modes of your device through adb shell dumpsys SurfaceFlinger
. The video color format used can be checked with FFMpeg ffprobe
command.
Best is to use HDMI 2.1 compativle devices and be aware that you can deteriorate the experience if you have a sound bar that would be only HDMI 1.4 capable between your Android TV box and your TV.
+ +In order to get adaptive refresh rate on Amazon fire tv stick you need to enable it in fireOS settings -> display & sounds -> Display, put video resolution to auto (up to 4k ultra hd); -> match original frame rate ON; -> dynamic range settings disable HDR or set it to adaptive. If you do not do this you will only have a restrictive set of refresh rates available. Note that choosing adaptive for dynamic range setting, your UI will be 1080p, and disabled will enable a 4k UI.
-In order to identify multimedia files, Nova relies on Android media scanning for local storage and USB storage. On latest version of the OS, Nvidia shield disables external storage Android indexing for performance enhancements. In order to get back external storage video files visibility, you need to enter Android settings/Device Preferences/Storage and enable Scan for media automatically option.
Alternatively you can expose in the same setting the local USB drive via SMB (Mount network storage option) and then use Nova SMB network shares indexing.
-On some devices due to some manufacturer Wi-Fi driver instability (e.g. Fire 10 HD), Nova's UDP SMB discovery process may cause Wi-Fi to switch off. In order to avoid this issue, select "Disable SMB UDP discovery" in Nova settings.
-Opensubtitles has announced to all app developers that starting January 2024, XML-RPC will not be supported anymore and that REST-API needs to be used (cf. https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP/issues/852).
@@ -198,7 +212,7 @@I managed to get 20 subs quota per day (instead of the 10 I had initially) by clicking on the "IF YOUR DOWNLOAD LIMIT IS WRONG, CLICK HERE TO FIX IT" found at https://www.opensubtitles.com/fr/users/profile. It might work for you too if you are in this situation (could be a sign-in before 2024 boost).
-For good reasons Google restricts MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
permission since API31.
Nova thus switched to MediaStore API.
@@ -211,25 +225,27 @@
Due to Android storage restrictions for API31, local NFO/JPG media information files for videos stored on local/HDD storage have been moved to nova public application folder located /sdcard/Android/data/org.courville.nova/files/nfoPoster
.
Due to Android storage restrictions for API31, local NFO/JPG media information files for videos stored on local/HDD storage have been moved to nova public application folder located /sdcard/Android/data/org.courville.nova/files/nfoPoster
Note that due to API31 restrictions, NFO files co-located with videos on local storage are invisible to nova since Google refuses to grant MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
permission to nova (cf. section above).
Feel free to join our Reddit community or open a feature request on github project issue .
+Feel free to join our Reddit community or open a feature request on github project issue.
-When discussing an issue on reddit, it is best also to report it on github project issue with details about your specific configuration/setup/hardware/Android version and if possible a way or link or sample to reproduce the problem. It is also best to include logs to help figuring out the problem (debugging procedure).
Source code is available on github and pull requests are welcome.
+Source code is available on github and associated repositories and pull requests are welcome.
You are welcome to contribute to the translation of the application via crowdin service
+You are welcome to contribute to the translation of the application via crowdin platform.
You are always welcome to show your gratitude and appreciation to the developers of this application through a donation via liberapay or github sponsor or opencollective.
+You are always welcome to show your gratitude and appreciation to the developers of this application through a donation via paypal, or liberapay or github sponsor or opencollective.