What's new in 0.5.0
A title's page now tells you what the file really holds, and how others rate
it. And there is nothing to sign up for.
- Picture and sound badges. Resolution, the Dolby Vision profile (with FEL
or MEL for profile 7), HDR10, HDR10+ or HLG with the mastering brightness,
codec and bit depth, frame rate, and the aspect ratio measured from the
picture itself: a 2.39:1 film with black bars in a 16:9 file says 2.39:1,
and one with IMAX scenes says both. Sound shows each format, with TrueHD
Atmos, DD+ Atmos and DTS:X told apart. Where the file came from (UHD Blu-ray
remux, WEB-DL from Netflix…) is read from its release name. The picture and
sound badges need ffmpeg installed. - For a series, the season on screen. The badges follow the season tabs,
show every version where a season's episodes differ, and an episode unlike
the rest of its season says so in the list. - Scores, age rating and studios. IMDb's rating beside TMDB's, and Rotten
Tomatoes' when you enter a free OMDb key of your own. The US age rating and
the studios or TV network, from TMDB. - No key to register. Kinema carries its own TMDB key, so the first run
asks only where your videos are. Without TMDB, movies are still identified
through Wikidata. - Close, sleep or shut down from the sofa. In TV mode, Back on Home offers
all three. - Settings says everything on screen, the desk layout grows with the
window, pausing puts the ring on Play/Pause, the volume bar works with a
mouse, and the last things on a page can be reached by remote.
Your library is upgraded on first start. A safety copy is made first, in
Kinema's app data under backups; 0.4.x cannot open the upgraded library.
Everything else is in the
changelog.
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-0.5.0-windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256Expected: ba6efc26dbc4a5dc225ca5667d391be95c71de7d0ffdb1fd598105f0ba8208ab
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.