Cinema

Cinema

A local-only, offline media center — import your own movies and shows and play them back full-screen. No servers, no streaming, no Jellyfin.

• Launch: python3 apps/Cinema/main.py or Ctrl+Alt+M
• Memory target: ~180 MB
• UI: PySide6 + QtMultimedia

Overview

Cinema is the fully offline half of Nautilus. A sidebar offers Home, Movies, Shows, Favorites, My Media, and Settings. Media is imported from your folders, classified into Movies or TV, and played back locally.

Features

• Library scanning — LibraryScanner walks media folders, builds a persistent JSON cache, and skips unchanged files via .fingerprint stale checks (library.py).
• Smart import — import files or whole folders (_import_media / _import_folder). Episodes matching the [sS]\d{1,2}[eE]\d{1,2} pattern go to ~/Cinema/TV/<show>, everything else to ~/Cinema/Movies/<clean title> (move or copy, your choice).
• Full-screen playback — QMediaPlayer + QVideoWidget in a dedicated PlayerWindow (player.py).
• Favorites — mark media as favorite and browse them in one place.
• Media grid & cards — responsive grid with cover-art caching and background art loaders; right-click context menu (Play / Favorite / Remove from Library) (widgets.py).
• Background work — scans and imports run in a QThread so the UI never freezes.

Shortcuts

Keys	Action
Ctrl+I	Import media
F5	Rescan library
Ctrl+F	Search library

Note

Cinema is a piracy-aware app: a first-run disclaimer dialog appears, and reminders show on the Home, My Media, and Settings panels.