What's new in 0.5.1
This release is about what happens when something goes wrong.
- Your library is copied once a week. What you have watched, where you
stopped, the matches you corrected by hand and your settings are kept in four
copies, apart from the copy made before each upgrade. Settings, Advanced
lists them and puts one back: Restore closes Kinema, and the copy is in place
when you start it again. What it replaces is kept too. - A screen that fails no longer leaves you looking at your desktop. Kinema
says so, and offers Try again, the log folder, or Close. - Crashes leave a trace in
app.log, with where they happened. - Starting Kinema twice brings the open window forward instead of opening a
second one. - Kinema says when ffmpeg is missing. The picture and sound details and
Kinema's own intro detection need it. Home says so once, and a title's page
says why its details are missing.
No library upgrade: 0.5.0 libraries open as they are.
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-0.5.1-windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256Expected: 9d228d6d1cf0b1319001bb646e8c92ec287465597b69ee135da54c8d2687206c
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.