v0.9.2

What's new in 0.9.2

For Windows and Linux.

• Kinema's own icon: a K whose upright is a strip of film, on the
  window, the taskbar, the desktop shortcut and Linux's app menu.
• Down at the end of a page reads on, and Up reads back. Notes under the
  last setting and a film's badges can now be reached with a remote, however
  long they are.
• Quick skips are one seek. Several quick presses of Left or Right, or
  a remote that repeats while the button is held, now seek once, to where
  all of them lead.
• Links that cannot be opened are shown as an address and a QR code to
  open on a phone, instead of a button that does nothing.
• A share or disk that is not mounted no longer empties the library:
  the folder is left alone and named on Home, as an unplugged drive is.
• The first run and the setup pages keep the focus ring on every page,
  also on a busy computer, and the way on always says Next.
• Smaller fixes: Settings' Up and Down stay in the open section; the
  player's messages no longer push the controls down; "Matching the screen"
  only shows when the screen changes; Home's notice after a scan says what
  is true; Wikipedia being busy is waited out; an empty page says "Nothing
  here yet."

Everything else is in the
changelog.

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Windows

Download kinema-0.9.2-windows-x64.zip, extract it
anywhere, and run kinema.exe. No installer, nothing written
outside the folder and your app data.

Windows 11. 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-0.9.2-windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256

Expected: 1bb4f3518130b5a09c5805b5d19ccd81ba21d53daf6666bb63038ebe26d7cfd8

Linux

Kinema 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 ./kinema_0.9.2_amd64.deb

Fedora:

sudo dnf install ./kinema-0.9.2-1.x86_64.rpm

Anything else: unpack kinema-0.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
and run ./kinema; its README.txt names the two libraries to
install. HDR on Wayland needs mpv 0.40 or later — Ubuntu 26.04,
Debian 13, Fedora 43 and Arch have it. Each file has a .sha256
beside it to check the download with sha256sum -c.

First run

Kinema 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 Kinema
carries, so there is nothing to sign up for; a free key of your own
can be entered in Settings instead.

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The Windows ZIP bundles an unmodified LGPL build of libmpv, which
you may replace; on Linux the system's libmpv is used — see
NOTICE.md.