A theater at home

Turn your digital film collection into a functioning theater. Cinefin manages and plays trailers, custom pre-roll, handles home automation. Build programmes, schedule screenings, print tickets, and run a theater at home.

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The Cinefin movie library

Current Features

Run your home theater like a pro

Build the programme

  • Sync your libraries from Plex and Jellyfin
  • Trailer matching by genre, year and certification
  • Custom pre-roll for your own media, ads or announcements
  • Ratings cards generated for MPAA or BBFC
  • Title cards designed and loaded per screening
  • Re-usable templates, fully configurable

Playout

  • Playout via MPV — embedded, or your own instance on the network
  • Home Assistant & REST for room automation
  • Phone remote to drive playback
  • Scheduled screenings that run themselves

Front of house

  • Kiosk mode for a spare screen or tablet
  • Thermal ticket printing
  • Box office - ticket designs, seats and printing

Look inside

Screenshots

A double bill programme
A double bill programme.
The box office: ticket design, quantity, seats and printing
The box office — ticket designs, seats and printing.
The remote control
Playout remote control.
The programme editor
Programme editor.
Kiosk wall layout Kiosk spotlight layout Kiosk board layout Kiosk split layout
The kiosk turns a spare screen or old tablet into the front of house.