basswaves/skrin v0.17.0

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What's new in 0.17.0

Kinema is now Skrin Media Player

Only the name and the icon change. Your library, settings, watch history and sign-ins stay exactly as they are, and so does an Android install, which updates in place. "Skrin" is Norwegian and Swedish for a small keepsake box; in English it sounds like "screen".

The project now lives at github.com/basswaves/skrin and skrin.org. Older copies still find this update: GitHub forwards the old address.

Updating from Kinema

• Windows: run the new setup, skrin-windows-x64-setup.exe. It removes Kinema's program files, shortcuts and Apps entry first, then installs Skrin. Your library is kept, and if you had Kinema in "Open with", Skrin takes its place at its first start. The portable ZIP: unpack it anywhere and run skrin.exe; the old folder can be deleted.
• Ubuntu, Debian and their relatives: sudo apt install ./skrin-linux-amd64.deb replaces Kinema by itself.
• Fedora: use sudo dnf swap kinema ./skrin-linux-x86_64.rpm. A plain dnf install would put Skrin beside Kinema.
• Android: install skrin-android.apk over Kinema as usual. It is the same app to Android.

Changed

• New name everywhere you see it: the window, the Start menu and app menu, Settings ("formerly Kinema"), the program (skrin.exe, /usr/bin/skrin) and the downloads (skrin-…).
• New icon: a sleeve with a disc half out of it — something kept, taken out to play.

Windows

Installer: download skrin-windows-x64-setup.exe
and run it. It installs for your Windows account only (no
administrator) and adds Skrin 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 skrin-windows-x64.zip,
extract it anywhere, and run skrin.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

Skrin 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 .\skrin-windows-x64-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Get-FileHash .\skrin-windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256

Expected: f2c9f473a888d67153df7fed8cee004a43b473fd0c34d41a3cb470e4688486b8 for the installer,
3a05b44642924f1f225ea03872e7d6535dce1c5a035abf95c8f8790cd22445c6 for the ZIP.
The two must match exactly. Each file also has a .sha256 beside it.

Linux

Skrin 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 ./skrin-linux-amd64.deb

Fedora:

sudo dnf install ./skrin-linux-x86_64.rpm

Over Kinema (Skrin's name until 0.17.0), use
sudo dnf swap kinema ./skrin-linux-x86_64.rpm instead: dnf
does not replace a package of another name by itself. Your
library is kept.

Anything else: unpack skrin-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
and run ./skrin; 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
skrin-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 skrin-android.apk.sha256; the
certificate it is signed with is named in the README.

First run

Skrin 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 Skrin
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.