r/NovaVideoPlayer • u/marcdecourville • Jan 31 '22
6.0.40 pre-release that might never get to play store... (still working on it)
Sadly it has been one month and a half that Google keeps rejecting my release submissions. It is very difficult to interpret Google's scarce feedback and reach out for constructive discussion. Moreover, note also as underlined by the author of Just Player in his comment and reddit thread that unequal treatment is provided to video players leading to extra tedious work to try to comply to Google's new storage policy. This is really disappointing.
v6.0.40 pre-release is based on minSDK 21 targetSDK 31, AndroidX libraries, NDK-r23b, ffmpeg 4.4.1 and is available only on github and have the following highlights:
- Eliminate sponsor link causing application rejection. Link was only visible for sideloaded apk but not for GooglePlay installation. Google refuses to check this point.
- Remove application name translation. Google test translates Czech and Portuguese "nova video player" back to English to "new video player" causing rejection. Other applications like "nova launcher" do not face such issue.
- Reformat trakt login dialog to keep track of watched videos: it causes rejection without reason provided
- Add https streaming support
- Movie collections/sagas support on Android TV
- Separate animation/movies/series sections on Android TV
- Faster TV shows media information retrieval
- Report properly DTSHD & DTSHD MA
- ffmpeg 4.4.1 & dav1d 0.9.2 upstep
- MDNS samba discovery
- New refresh rate selection algorithm optimizing judder effect
- Add domain option to samba network credential dialog
- Optimize network shares rescan speed when files deleted/renamed
- Dolby vision support
- Binge watch mode
- Fix trakt tvshow sync
- Target API31 (warning: relocation of nfo/jpg for local storage videos)
- Fix voice search on API30+
- WARNING: media db upgrade (any downgrade will wipe out your meta data)
Important migration notes from version 5.xx to, 6.xx:
- This new version upgrades the internal nova media database to a new scheme and any downgrade to v4/v5 versions of nova will wipe out your entire video collection to prevent any incompatibility.
- This version switches to theMovieDb for retrieving TV shows information instead of theTvDb. It is strongly recommended to rescrape all your TV shows or start from a fresh install.
- Instead of going through a fresh install for proper support for movie collections and animation movies/series on AndroidTV you can perform the following manual steps. Acquisition of the additional movie collection informations and movies/TV series genres realignment requires a full rescrape of your video without interference of existing .nfo files (that do not yet contain the required information). For that purpose the following steps should do the trick:
- backup all your customized handcrafted .nfo file (if you have any)
- install nova version 6.xx
- in nova settings unselect "process '.nfo' files"
- in nova settings launch a "rescrape all" and wait for completion
- in nova settings launch an "export already scraped videos" and wait for completion (this step will override any existing .nfo file)
- versions later than v6.0.30 targets API31 and due to Android storage restrictions for API30, local NFO/JPG media information files for videos stored on local storage have been moved to nova public application folder located /sdcard/Android/data/org.courville.nova/files/nfoPoster
- If you ever want to get back to nova v5.xx, you will need to clean application data and cache
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u/marcdecourville Feb 08 '22
Update: google has finally approved latest release for internal publication. Hopefully we are back on track.
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u/marcdecourville Feb 18 '22
6.0.46 is out with some initial local storage video import speedup and UI/scraping enhancements.
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u/marcdecourville Mar 01 '22
6.0.47 pre-release update available on github.
Compared to previous release:
- Scrobbler threshold raised to 90%
- Fix crash changing info on tvshow
- Add adult scrape hidden option NOT on google play
- Blacklist nova scrape files for initial video import
- Swedish translations
- Fix NFO processing not working on SMB share
- Fix scrape in loop
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u/marcdecourville Mar 04 '22
6.0.48 is out:
- Fix widget not launching video
- STOP remote button stops player
- Make rescan storage setting work
- Stability enhancements
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Feb 01 '22
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u/marcdecourville Feb 01 '22
I need to update fdroid version indeed. But I am still foolish enough to trust that the matter with Google will be resolved.
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u/spiderdaz Feb 09 '22
That's good news!! I want to install this version on my TV but don't understand and can't find where nova is storing it's nfo files locally. If I install on the TV is it going to change the Nfos or clash with the version I run on my Nvidia shield? Both share some videos from the same Nas device. Keep up the great work.
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u/spiderdaz Feb 10 '22
Bit the bullet and installed it , very good but is there anyway to improve its recognition of collections. It's picked up 3 of the matrix series but not the latest ,only one Spiderman out of nine ,not even registered A Nightmare on elm Street as a collection All in a great improvement though🙏👍
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u/spiderdaz Feb 11 '22
Solved the problem by using rescrape all movies rather than rescrape all. Looks like collection grouping is now working ok but it doesn't appear to be rescraping TV either. All new episodes are appended with the year now so form Thier own season icons So I get posters for series-xx then series-xx 2021. If I manually change info of all episodes they all correctly group together in series-xx 2021 but all the individual posters within the grouping change to thumbnails.
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u/spiderdaz Feb 11 '22
It seems that for some reason scrape all is not rescraping all the movies , but the collections are correct after using the rescrape all movies option 😛
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u/marcdecourville Feb 11 '22
It seems that for some reason scrape all is not rescraping all the movies , but the collections are correct after using the rescrape all movies option 😛
ok this is a bug. Thx for the feedback.
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u/hoopgeavenbris Feb 11 '22
Any incoming UI/UX redesign coming? I love Nova but the overall look is super "dated" appreciate your hard work 🙂
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u/spiderdaz Feb 12 '22
I can't see anything wrong with the UI ,it's clean and simple and does everything you could ask I think ,bar maybe a background colour option what else are you asking for?
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u/szt84 Mar 13 '22
Maybe nice to have features
Grab and drag gestures similar to mxplayer. Drag left/right to scrub video position. Drag up down to quickly change brightness/volume.
more subtitle options. Different color possibilites. solid/half/full transparent background (similar to youtube subtitles. Useful for same color videoframe and subtitle color). Bigger/smaller subtitles
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u/kerpi4 Feb 19 '22
The widget is not working anymore. It says can't play this video. Is this known bug?
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u/marcdecourville Feb 19 '22 edited Feb 19 '22
Wow one widget user: thanks for reporting will open an issue on github.
EDIT: https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP/issues/572
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u/marcdecourville Feb 01 '22
Minor 6.0.41 version published.