Nova Video Player for PC

Running Nova Video Player on your desktop gives you a full-screen video library on a real keyboard and mouse, plus support for keep your playback history and watch progress synced across devices. Nova is an open-source video player built for playing media from network drives, USB storage, and local files, pulling movie and TV show metadata automatically into one unified collection. On PC, you gain a larger view of your library, easier navigation with physical input, and the freedom to multitask around an active playback window.

Nova Video Player brings serious multimedia capability to Windows and Mac desktops. It pulls video files from multiple sources (local folders, NAS devices via SMB, FTP/SFTP servers, and external drives) and organizes them in a single interface with automatic poster and backdrop retrieval. The player integrates with Trakt for tracking what you've watched and supports resuming playback across devices, giving you the ability to start on one machine and continue elsewhere. On a PC, you gain a stable, keyboard-driven workspace for browsing and watching longer film sessions without the constraints of mobile screens.

Network and Storage Support

A core strength of Nova is its ability to connect to multiple playback sources simultaneously. You can stream directly from your computer's internal drives, pull files from a network-attached storage device using SMB or UPnP protocols, or access video libraries on FTP and SFTP servers, the same home-network infrastructure used to deliver VBox TV channels from a VBox TV Gateway to any connected device. External USB drives appear as another source layer. All files integrate into one browsable collection, letting you treat your entire digital video library (whether local, on a NAS, or remote) as a single organized database rather than hunting through separate folder trees.

Video Format and Codec Coverage

Nova Video Player handles a broad range of video containers and codecs, making it an HD format support player that works with MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, and FLV among others, with hardware-accelerated decoding on most Android devices. Subtitle formats include SRT, SUB, ASS, and SMI. The player also manages multiple audio tracks and subtitle streams within a single file, letting you switch languages or subtitle sources on the fly. On a computer where you're managing a personal film collection, this breadth means fewer compatibility headaches and more time actually watching.

Metadata and Library Organization

Nova automatically retrieves descriptions, posters, and backdrop images for your movies and TV shows, building a visually organized library without manual effort. You can browse by title, genre, year, duration, or rating, and TV shows sort by season. The player also processes NFO metadata files if they're present in your collection folders. Desktop use makes this library browser particularly useful: you can sit back from your monitor, scan your entire film catalog by visual preview, and launch playback with a few keypresses. Private mode lets you disable playback history recording temporarily if you're screening content without logging it to your watch history.

Playback Precision and Synchronization

Video and audio sometimes drift out of sync, or subtitles may need timing adjustment. Nova lets you manually tweak both audio-to-video offset and subtitle delay within a playback session, then save those corrections per file. This granular control is particularly valuable on a PC where you can use keyboard shortcuts to fine-tune settings without fumbling with touch controls. The application is a fork of the Archos video player open-source release, carrying forward that lineage of detailed playback control.

Cross-Device Resume and History

If you're signed into Trakt, Nova tracks your watched videos and resume points. Start a film on your desktop, and your playback position syncs giving you the ability to pick up elsewhere, or vice versa. This requires staying logged in on a single machine, which works smoothly in a PC desktop environment where your account remains persistent. The player also shows a timestamp indicator in the interface when a video is finishing, helping you plan around its end time when scheduling your evening.