WARNING: this v6 release of Nova consists in a major update compared to v5 and requires to rescan all video collection for multimedia information re-aquisition. It is strongly advised to restart from a clean install to avoid problems. Please check FAQ for details.
Incremental release changelog compared to previous v6 github release:
- Make animation row optional on android TV
- Add more blacklisted local storage directories to speed up media import
- Stability enhancements
v6 release changelog short summary compared to v5:
- Add support for movie collections/sagas on Android TV
- Separate section for animation movies and series on Android TV
- Switch to tmdb instead of tvdb for TV shows information retrieval
- Faster TV shows media information retrieval
- Fix crash on Android 12/S/API31
- Properly report DTS-HD and DTS-HD MA
- Dolby vision support
- ffmpeg 4.4.2 and dav1d 1.0.0 integration
- Add MDNS samba discovery
- New refresh rate selection algorithm optimizing judder effect
- Add domain option to samba network credential dialog
- Optimize network shares rescan speed in case of files delete/rename
- Binge watching play mode
- Display content rating and better audio/resolution tag on leanback
- STOP remote button stops player
- Add https streaming support
- Swedish, Greek, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian translations in progress
- Add adult scrape hidden option NOT on google play
- Speed up initial local storage video import blacklisting whatsapp files before import
- Fix trakt tvshow sync
- Target API31 (warning: relocation of nfo/jpg for local storage videos
- Sentry crashnalytics backend integration
- Stability enhancements
More detailed migration notes:
- 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.
- Proper support for movie collections and animation movies/series on AndroidTV requires some 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