Indexing

On a fresh start, the discovery process can take some time it is based on importing the local Android media library.

Nova Video Player is just a video player and does not point to any streaming service. If you do not have already video content on your device no videos will be displayed.

For local storage in order to avoid some folder scanning since Nova relies on Android media library, it honors the use of .nomedia file. If such a file is present in a folder its content will not be indexed.

Video scrape consists in retrieving video information meta data, posters, backdrops relying on the following services: https://www.thetvdb.com/ for TV shows and https://www.themoviedb.org/ for movies. If you are experiencing issues, please check that direct search on these web pages works.

With external USB disk, an import of the Android media library is triggered when receiving Android Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_SCANNER_FINISHED after the device is mounted by Android. If the mount point of the disk is identical to a former one then previous imported media is made visible again with only an incremental scan of the disk for new content. Note that on Sony TV recent firmwares, the mount point of the disk is changed at each boot or return from suspend leading to a very bad user experience in presence of large hdd containing many video files since Nova will rescan the disk each time. This behavior is not present on other AndroidTV implementations (e.g. NVIDIA shield).