What's new in 0.13.0
For Windows, Linux and Android. No library upgrade this time (schema 26, as
in 0.12.0).
- Settings, grouped by what you want. Language & subtitles, Skipping
intros, Keep track of what I watch and Posters & ratings replace Accounts;
each service sits on the card that uses it. A search box at the top of
the section list finds a setting by its name, what it does or one of its
choices, and lands on it. - What leaves your computer (Settings → Privacy): every service Kinema can
talk to, what it sends, when, and what stops it, with whether each one is on
now. A test keeps the list in step with the code; the website shows the same
text. - Send a report (Settings → Advanced → Developer tools, and the crash
screen; Windows and Linux): the logs and the equipment check in one zip in
Downloads, with your home folder's name replaced by~, and the bug-report
form opened. Kinema sends nothing itself. - Copy text with the mouse on a title's page, Settings, the details panel
and Needs attention. Right-click no longer shows the browser's menu (its
Reload restarted the interface, even mid-film); text fields keep Cut, Copy
and Paste. - Language codes (
EN,NO,PT-BR) on each row of the audio and
subtitle menu, and a "+" on each episode row to add just that episode
to a playlist. - At a desk, Library's Folders tile is "Add a folder": the system's folder
window, then Movies, TV shows or Videos. The TV layout keeps the full
Folders page. - Release files have fixed names, without the version
(kinema-windows-x64-setup.exe,kinema-linux-amd64.deb,
kinema-android.apkand so on), so the website's
download buttons always fetch the
latest. New guides there: how Kinema reads file names, and getting your
Blu-rays into Kinema.
How it was checked: automated tests on Windows and Linux, keyboard flows in
WebKit and Edge for every changed screen (every Settings entry found by search
and landed on), the full keyboard-navigation map of every screen, and
the installer from this release in a clean Windows Sandbox: install (WebView2
fetched), play, uninstall, nothing left behind.
Not tried yet: Send a report and copying text in the real app window (tested
in the test version of the interface only), and the new screens on a real
Android device.
The full list is in the changelog.
Windows
Installer: download kinema-windows-x64-setup.exe
and run it. It installs for your Windows account only (no
administrator) and adds Kinema to the Start menu. Uninstall it
from Settings → Apps: it removes the program, its shortcuts and its
"Open with" entries, and asks before deleting your library and
settings.
Portable: or download kinema-windows-x64.zip,
extract it anywhere, and run kinema.exe. Nothing is written
outside the folder and your app data.
Windows 11. Needs the WebView2 runtime, which ships with
Windows 11; on a PC without it the installer fetches it from
Microsoft, and the ZIP needs it installed first.
Windows will ask once whether to run it
Kinema is not code-signed, so the first time you open it Windows
shows "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then
Run anyway; Windows remembers. To check that the file you
downloaded is the one that was published, run this in PowerShell
in the folder you downloaded it to:
Get-FileHash .\kinema-windows-x64-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Get-FileHash .\kinema-windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256Expected: 644debd97dfb6e9aff33f708025a2979494b154138c3d3972cf8681ecff8f7e4 for the installer,
2374b85755e972ee569ec7f50a77e471862ec857b476d2d8ee66df4c24596120 for the ZIP.
The two must match exactly. Each file also has a .sha256 beside it.
Linux
Kinema uses your system's mpv and WebKitGTK; the packages install
them for you. For x86-64 PCs take the amd64 / x86_64 files,
for ARM the arm64 / aarch64 ones.
Ubuntu 24.04 or later, Debian 13:
sudo apt install ./kinema-linux-amd64.debFedora:
sudo dnf install ./kinema-linux-x86_64.rpmAnything else: unpack kinema-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
and run ./kinema; its README.txt names the two libraries (mpv
and WebKitGTK) to install. HDR on Wayland needs mpv 0.40 or later — Ubuntu 26.04,
Debian 13, Fedora 43 and Arch have it.
To check a download, put the file and its .sha256 in one folder
and run sha256sum -c <file>.sha256 there.
Android (early version)
For Android TV boxes, installed by hand (sideloaded): download
kinema-android.apk, copy it to the device and
open it (Android asks once to allow installs from that source).
It is an early version, tried on one TV box and the emulator; a
phone has not been tried. See the README for what has been tested
and what is still missing. Check the download with
sha256sum -c kinema-android.apk.sha256; the
certificate it is signed with is named in the README.
First run
Kinema asks where it will be watched and where your movies and TV
folders are, then scans — with a few skippable setup pages while it
does. Posters and descriptions come from TMDB through a key Kinema
carries, so there is nothing to sign up for; a free key of your own
can be entered in Settings instead.
The Windows ZIP bundles an unmodified LGPL build of libmpv, which
you may replace; on Linux the system's libmpv is used; Android uses
Google's Media3 (Apache-2.0) — see NOTICE.md.
Something not working, or it works on a device the README does not
list? Say so: bug report
or device report.