What's new in 0.3.0 — native output
Whatever the PC is connected to, the film now reaches it the way it was
mastered — and where that cannot happen, Kinema tells you why and what would
fix it.
- HDR as mastered. An HDR screen gets the film's own HDR10 metadata and tone
maps it itself, as with a disc player. An SDR screen gets Kinema's own tone
mapping instead of Windows' conversion. - Surround untouched to your receiver — Dolby TrueHD and Atmos, DTS-HD
Master Audio and DTS:X — with Settings → Sound → Send sound straight to the
receiver. Kinema asks your receiver which formats it takes, holds the sound
device only while a film plays, and leaves Windows' "Atmos for home theater"
alone for everything else. - The screen matched to the film, in fullscreen: the refresh rate (23.976 Hz
and friends, so pans stop juddering), the resolution, and Windows HDR — and
put back afterwards, even after a crash. See Settings → Screen. - Output check — press
iwhile a film plays: picture size, HDR, motion,
colour depth and sound, each either native or what is holding it back and how
to fix it. - Settings → Your equipment shows what Kinema found about your screens,
receiver and sound devices.
No library upgrade: 0.2.0 libraries open as they are. Full list in
CHANGELOG.md.
Install
Download the ZIP, extract it anywhere, and run kinema.exe.
No installer, nothing written outside the folder and your app data.
Windows 11 only. Needs the WebView2 runtime, which ships with
Windows 11 — nothing to install separately.
Windows will warn you
The executable is not code-signed, so SmartScreen shows
"Windows protected your PC" on first run. Click More info,
then Run anyway. To check you got the file this workflow built:
Get-FileHash .\kinema-0.3.0-windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256Expected: 1cba370691be79173dea318667a9e3c2c1f067eefa946b3389bd23ea325882dc
First run
The library is empty until you add a folder. Open Settings, add
a movies or TV folder, and optionally paste a free
TMDB API key for posters
and artwork. TV metadata works without any key.
Bundles an unmodified LGPL build of libmpv, which you may replace —
see NOTICE.md.