What's new in 0.13.1
Fixes for what the first outside tester ran into. For Windows, Linux and
Android. The library is upgraded once (schema 26 → 27; a safety copy is made
first).
- Matching says what really failed. When TMDB gives no answer, Kinema
tries again, and on TMDB's second address (api.tmdb.org, the same service
on the same terms), and keeps the one that answers. When neither answers,
it says why (the name could not be looked up, the connection was refused,
cut off or timed out, or the secure connection failed) and whether the
internet itself works, instead of "Couldn't reach the internet". A lookup
that got no answer is no longer filed as "could not identify this"; the
next scan asks again. - No keys on screen or in the log. A failed request's address, with
TMDB's or OMDb's key in it, is cut at its query in Needs attention and in
the log that goes into Send a report. - Send a report saves the zip and says its name and folder first; "Open
the report form" and "Show the file" are their own presses, so the browser
no longer covers the note. The crash screen says the same. - Re-watching keeps the ✓, and a re-watch stopped before 80 % can be
resumed. A finished film is never offered as a resume. - A year written twice in a file name ("Film 2017 (2017)") no longer stops
the film matching. Wording: Trakt's card says where you stopped is read
back; ffmpeg found on the PATH is said so; the setup page says 5 subtitle
downloads a day without an OpenSubtitles account and 20 with one.
Full list: 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: fec063b61febb01c00cde8bd9cefde12e7d828ec6111bddab586d8c39637de62 for the installer,
ddd90ab7e5171b608734fe231f29c566f690e43b5607a02daa41896e1b2daefb 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.