Version History
Here you can find the changelog of NOVA Video Player since it was posted on our website on 2020-04-30.
The latest version is 6.2.67-20240413.1552 and it was updated on soft112.com on 23 April, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 6.2.67-20240413.1552
posted on 2024-04-13
- Android TV icon update for Google Play compliance
- Add Android 12 frame rate matching feature support
- Add missing season actors to tv show episode cast
- Scrape shows and movies without air date reported by TMDB
- Fix preferred audio language not applied
- Fix cannot download subs when logged in on opensubtitles.com
- Propose nova as external player when opening local files
- Fix subtitles download for videos on UPnP shares
- Stability enhancements
version 6.2.57-20240209.1608
posted on 2024-02-09
- Propose nova as external player when opening local files
- Fix subtitles download for videos on UPnP shares
- proguard cleanup
- Stability enhancements
version 6.2.54-20240129.0911
posted on 2024-01-29
- Add preferred audio language option for multi audio track videos
- Another attempt to fix ftp
- libyuv upstep aligned on chromium master
- Stability enhancements
version 6.2.50-20240110.2210
posted on 2024-01-10
- Fix duplicate subs listed in VideoInfo for smbj shares
- Assume writeable directories on jcifs-ng
- Stability enhancements
- Fix F-Droid build
- Update Video information fragment if subtitles have been downloaded during playback or video has changed
- Fix play mode
- Cleaner Android TV years banner
- Better detect external subtitle language from filename
- Faster subtitle check on Android TV
version 6.2.40-20231222.2306
posted on 2024-01-05
- Enforce new opensubtitles REST-API with quotas becoming mandatory in in January
- Add player gesture control
- New nova icon
- Update jcifs-ng to 2.1.10, sshj to 0.37.0, smbj to 0.13.0, ffmpeg to 6.1, dav1d to 1.3.0, boost to 1.84.0, libtorrent to 2.9.0
- Add missing anime shows by alpha on Android TV
- Avoid top/bottom grey bars on chromebooks while playing videos
- Fix AV1 decoding regression
- Stability enhancements
version 6.2.31-20231010.2009
posted on 2023-10-11
- Support more scrape and subtitle languages
- Display audio/sub track titles
- Fix hdd subtitles download
- Fix playback speed A/V desync
- Use jsch-mwiede for SFTP
- Add sort video option when browsing by folders
- New network shares: sshj (alternate SFTP), smbj (higher throughput SMB2+), webdav(s) for http(s)
- Add tx3g/mov_text subs support
- Network shortcuts support for all network shares protocols
- Improve scrape accuracy: process year in movie files
- Fix trakt login on leanback
version 6.1.6-20230404.2327
posted on 2023-10-06
- Add webdav network share support
- Add tx3g (mov_text) subtitles support
- Add network shortcuts support for all network shares
- Enhance webdav stabillity
- Be sure to process year provided in movie files to increase scrape accuracy
- Fix all videos icon boxes not getting updated on AndroidTV
version 6.0.96-20230209.2111
posted on 2023-02-09
- Better movie scrape results
- Increase number of subtitles track supported to 64
- Pass list of subtitles to external video players
- Support more ssa subtitle style formats
- Option to disable Dolby Vision decoder
- Option to not apply audio passthrough if AV receiver does not support codec
- Experimental playback speed option
- Target API33 & Google Play Bundle delivery
- Fix SMB1 regression on some NAS
- Stability enhancements
version 5.15.26-20210915.1928
posted on 2021-09-22
- Fix crash on Android 12/S/API31
- Full screen display is enabled by default even on displays with cutouts
- Properly report DTS-HD and DTS-HD MA
- ffmpeg 4.4 and dav1d 0.9.2 integration
- Better tv show subtitle download based on IMDB ID
- Disable delete on UPnP shares not supporting it
version 5.15.20-20210509.1905
posted on 2021-05-09
- Better tv show subtitle download based on IMDB ID
- Disable delete on UPnP shares not supporting it
version 5.15.19-20210319.1842
posted on 2021-03-19
- Fix SMB2/3 timeouts occurring sometimes
- ffmpeg version 4.3.2 and dav1d version 0.8.2 upstep
version 5.15.16-20210107.0844
posted on 2021-01-07
- SMBv2/3 support via jcifs-ng
- Fix non systematic wrong IP selected when browsing SMB shares
- New debug infrastructure based on slf4j/logback
- New 2021 banner icons for AndroidTV
version 4.49.15-20201210.0809
posted on 2020-12-10
- SMB1 support only rollback release aligned with v5.15.14 without jcifs-ng support to address SMB issue seen in the field
- Fix anime playback using opus track using libopus instead of platform one
- Update trakt/tmdb/thetvdb-java libraries to 6.8.5/2.2.0/2.4.0
- Restrict nova webview to nova usage
- Stability enhancements
version 5.15.14-20201206.1224
posted on 2020-12-06
- SMBv2/3 support via jcifs-ng
- Attempt to fix SMB on WD Mycloud with guest login
- Fix anime playback using opus track using libopus instead of platform one
- Update trakt/tmdb/thetvdb-java libraries to 6.8.5/2.2.0/2.4.0
- Restrict nova webview to nova usage
- Stability enhancements
version 5.15.11-20201128.1642
posted on 2020-11-29
- SMBv2/3 support via jcifs-ng
- Fix anime playback using opus track using libopus instead of platform one
- Update trakt/tmdb/thetvdb-java libraries to 6.8.5/2.2.0/2.4.0
- Restrict nova webview to nova usage
- Stability enhancements
version 4.49.11-20201023.2340
posted on 2020-10-23
- Fix folder play mode
- Correct subtitles download failing while playing video on local storage
- Do not stop local video playback on network connectivity change
- Use new nova icon for search bar
- Fix search crash on old Amazon firesticks
- Fix wrong player layout when screen rotation is locked and video started in portrait
version 4.49.9-20201013.1245
posted on 2020-10-13
- Do not stop local video playback on network connectivity change
- Use new nova icon for search bar
- Fix search crash on old Amazon firesticks
- Fix wrong player layout when screen rotation is locked and video started in portrait
version 4.49.7-20200917.1942
posted on 2020-09-17
- Display external storage label/description on AndroidTV
- Do not pollute subtitle manual picker with cached online retrieved subs
- Allow http video streaming
- chromeOS/Amazon UI fixes
- Add missing subtitles ISO639 code strings
- Stability enhancement
version 4.49.6-20200731.1937
posted on 2020-07-31
- Fix video stopping often on arm64 due to latest ffmpeg upstep
- Better USB disk management on AndroidTV
- Add sponsor link
- Fix number of audio tracks limited to 6
- Fix missing poster on some movies
- Fix playback not smooth regression on Sony and Philips AndroidTV
- Stretch mode is back
- Allow adaptive refresh rate on phones
- Improve A/V sync for some videos (PTS instead of sample based sync)
- Scraping improvements
- Stability enhancement
version 4.49.5-20200711.1222
posted on 2020-07-11
- better USB disk management on AndroidTV
- Add sponsor link
- Fix number of audio tracks limited to 6
- Fix missing poster on some movies
- Fix playback not smooth regression on Sony and Philips AndroidTV
- Stretch mode is back
- Allow adaptive refresh rate on phones
- Improve A/V sync for some videos (PTS instead of sample based sync)
- ffmpeg version 4.3.0 and dav1d version 0.7.1 upstep
- Scraping improvements
- Stability enhancement
version 4.49.1-20200704.1437
posted on 2020-07-04
- Add sponsor link
- Fix number of audio tracks limited to 6
- Fix missing poster on some movies
- Fix playback not smooth regression on Sony and Philips AndroidTV
- Stretch mode is back
- Allow adaptive refresh rate on phones
- Improve A/V sync for some videos (PTS instead of sample based sync)
- ffmpeg version 4.3.0 and dav1d version 0.7.1 upstep
- Scraping improvements
- Stability enhancement
version 4.48.10-20200620.1114
posted on 2020-06-20
- Fix missing poster on some movies
- Fix playback not smooth regression on Sony and Philips AndroidTV
- Stretch mode is back
- Allow adaptive refresh rate on phones
- Improve A/V sync for some videos (PTS instead of sample based sync)
- ffmpeg version 4.2.3 and dav1d version 0.7.0 upstep
- Scraping improvements
- Stability enhancement
version 4.48.4-20200510.1202
posted on 2020-05-13
- Fix use of nova as external video player
- Add opensubtitles credentials support in preferences
- Fix scraper issues
- UI navbar correct color on Samsung
- Fix trakt resume point sync issues
- Fix DTSHD decoding crashes
- Subtitle manual download improvement via scraped information search
- Better TV show scrape result through multi-language Levenshtein metric computation
- Refactored TmDb and TheTVDb scrapers
- UI polishing on phones/tablets and partners logo refresh
- AppCompat migration
version 1.0-20200405.1809
posted on 2020-05-10
- Fix opensubtitles change requiring credentials to use API
- Fix DTSHD playback crashing sometimes