What's new in 0.18.0
Update with one press
When a newer Skrin is out, Settings → Advanced now has Update to Skrin X.
One press downloads the new version from this page, checks it against its
checksum and opens your system's own installer, which asks before anything
changes:
- Windows (installed with the setup): the setup opens and Skrin closes so it
can be replaced. Your library and settings stay. - Linux (the .deb or .rpm): the system asks for your password, then
"Restart Skrin". - Android: Android's installer opens; the first time, allow Skrin to install
apps.
Nothing is downloaded until you press it, and Skrin never updates by itself.
The Windows ZIP and the Linux folder download keep the "Open the download page"
button. Settings → Privacy says what this sends (nothing about you).
The seek bar shows what is loaded
The part of the film already loaded ahead of the play head shows on the seek
bar, lighter than the part you have watched. Mostly seen on a network share:
it shows how far you can jump without waiting.
Skrin's own colours
The icon's orange replaces Kinema's red in the app, and the icon and a white
"Skrin" sit at the top left.
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 SHA256Expected: d0383c746185ec8cce2c61ed97904da72d163bcf54ec8dae534dea26becdd24a for the installer,
e89923686a990b9e0725308ad4634dd82d44cd13cb5aae687ca6b7cac5d5d974 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.debFedora:
sudo dnf install ./skrin-linux-x86_64.rpmOver 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. Platform support
says 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
Installing Skrin.
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 Platform support
does not list? Say so: bug report
or device report.