What's new in 0.6.0
- Skip recap. "Previously on…" gets a button of its own. When a recap comes
before the intro, that is two presses: Skip recap, then Skip intro. With
automatic skipping on, recaps are skipped too. - The scene after the credits. Where a film has one, Skip takes you
straight to it instead of letting the credits run out. It is always a button,
even with automatic skipping on. - A second collection of skip times. IntroDB, a different service from
TheIntroDB, fills in intros, recaps and credits where TheIntroDB has nothing.
On by default, with its own switch in Settings → Intro & credits; only which
film or episode it is gets sent. - SIMKL. Connect your SIMKL account in the new Settings → Accounts tab:
a code on screen, and a QR code to approve it on your phone. Every film and
episode you finish in Kinema is then added to your SIMKL history, as is
everything you had already watched, once. It only adds: nothing comes back
from SIMKL, and marking something unwatched in Kinema leaves SIMKL alone.
Anything finished while SIMKL cannot be reached is sent later. - F11 switches between the desk and TV layouts, as Ctrl+Shift+T does.
- Quieter scrollbars: a thin dark bar instead of Windows' grey one, and
none at all in the TV layout.
The library is upgraded the first time 0.6.0 starts (a safety copy is made
first). Skip times are looked up again the next time each episode is played.
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 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 you got the file this
workflow built, run this in PowerShell where you downloaded it:
Get-FileHash .\kinema-0.6.0-windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256Expected: 37b5c8dad6c824f66137d720c3c357349378450f632091618cd4d432f58287f4
First run
Kinema opens on a setup panel: add your movies and TV folders, and
scan. 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.
Bundles an unmodified LGPL build of libmpv, which you may replace —
see NOTICE.md.