100% agree, the volume out over BT has been too low. I am using a JBL BoomBox which is insanely loud but often we can bearly hear the audio from the PPM… that might also be because we have been hosting Movie nights in the orchard…take a bit of oomff to fill 153acres!!
Thanks, I’ll try it out. I’ve just put a 128GB card in my Pico too. Glad someone else is enjoying how it’s supposed to be enjoyed! Will have an outdoor movie with the neighbours at the weekend, now it’s safe to do so. (According to the WA govt.)
Not to rain on your parade (I’ll check this app out later today), but doesn’t Kodi do all this also? It also plays the content natively without needing external players.
But Kodi doesn’t work very well on the PPM, right? At least not yet, there seems to be some potential light in the tunnel if I read the last messages of this thread correctly: Kodi Rockchip issues with PicoPix Max
I assumed Kodi was like Plex and required a media server. Anyway, I don’t have Kodi installed, so Nova will do. I’ll have a look and see what Kodi can do…
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In my experience and setup Kodi works just fine. They’re working on improving the performance but for me personally it does everything I need it to do, in one app.
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the only thing with kodi you have to install 3rd party addons, it’s better to find a pre installed build
3rd party add-ons for what exactly?
for movies & tv shows etc…
Isn’t that included as standard in Kodi? I don’t recall installing anything for that… 
I have only played around with it on my pc when it was XBMC, and the interface wasn’t as clean in fact it was a mess, and was fine to use on a pc but definitely not for a TV set up like this, maybe I’ll check out KODI now and see the changes
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@IvoGrijt Kodi can be used in different ways. Standard use is playing your own content stored locally or a netwerk shared drive. Kodi will even put some structure in your media and add extra’s such as fan art, short description, category, …
One step further, you can add a lot of functionality to Kodi by installing addons. This is a huge list of applications which will enrich your Kodi experience. Going from new look and feel, to adding subtitles, backup capabilities up to adding streaming services.
These streaming services can be from official TV channels, but also offering (illegal) access to movies and TV series.
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I just gave Kodi a try if that is the standard way of use then this Nova player is much more user friendly , once the source is selected from the sd card the whole library is complied automatically, it’;s nice neat and clean, Kodi you need to add each one individually it seems and a lot of fiddling around in to folders and drives, a lot more steps are involved, think it’s more powerful with more feature with all the add ons but if you just want a clean quick way to access your internal library in one place this Nova player is winning for me hands down,
Oh and even the internal player is working just fine for me, no dropped frames playing multiple MKV files, able to select different language audio tracks with ease, accessing the menu while paused during playback , overall use with the remote for navigation without the need to resorting to the mouse at all,
so far it’s about the perfect app, should really have been included as a built in app I think, no complaints so far, super happy about it.
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@ThunderStrk Good to hear that you have found a working solution for you. I will definitely try out Nova once my PPM arrives. All you describe is possible in Kodi, with eg automatic screening for new content, but is is indeed more complex to setup.
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Yup, this was my experience. I was a big XBMC user waaaaay back, and then followed Berkley and the Plex team down the server (Macintosh centric path) but still very familiar with Kodi. (used on my Nvidia shield)
I could not get reliable playback in Kodi, I assumed due to the Rockchip issue, so I went on the hunt for something similar, and far FAR easier to set up. Nova is a 3 step process 1. Install Nova, 2. Make popcorn, 3. Enjoy your media. I mean, you don’t even have to set up folders or scrapers or anything, I was kinda shocked how easy it was.
Kodi is very very powerful, and I use it alot for emulation etc but Horse’s for course’s, Nova is excellent on the PPM. I reckon it should be part of the standard install, wadda ya reckon @Philips_Support_P?
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Loving how Contagion has suddenly become so popular!
I installed Nova and it seems to be a good candidate indeed. My media storage and consumption is only at home though, and heavily Synology NAS based, or using subscription services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, & Disney+ to name a few.
I’ll try transferring some movies to a USB drive for testing with Nova, and also setting it up to use the NAS at home.
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Ha yes I’ve never heard of this movie till a few weeks ago, and I’m voting to have this preinstalled, think a lot of users will benefit and my opinion of the picopix max although has been good just got better in my use case.
Yes that would be good for you to try out setting up the NAS and see if this app is capable of more