Free, practical software for cinema exhibition
D-Cine.net develops independent tools for getting content onto screens, running foyer displays and managing the operational detail around digital cinema. The core products below are free to use and are built around real exhibition workflows.
Free tools
No subscription wall around the core products.
Cinema-led
Designed inside a working cinema for practical day-to-day use.
Independent
Designed to complement, rather than lock you into, existing systems.
Tools across the cinema workflow
Cinema Sign
Free digital signage for cinema foyers and poster boxes. Cinema Sign turns Android TV hardware into poster, trailer, Coming Soon, session-time and advertising displays. Control it from a phone or computer, cache film media locally and coordinate multiple screens. NVIDIA Shield is the recommended player; check other Android TV hardware before rollout.
More choice of cinema data: the current implementation offers 38 input choices, including manual entry, another Cinema Sign player, CinemaShowtimes OpenAPI, BLOAD formats, Veezi, VenueMaster and TaPOS / MEDIA2. Additional ticketing readers have different levels of verification; beta readers need testing with your own cinema’s feed.
Features and data-source guidance · Installation and hardware · CinemaShowtimes-JSON standard
Catcher / CatcherTMS
Catcher brings DCP ingest, library management, transfers, inspection, AutoKDM, DCP-to-MP4 conversion and audio QC together. The CatcherTMS version 4 interface is in development; full theatre-management scheduling is upcoming.
KdmGen
Find trusted cinema-player certificates, inspect KDMs and certificates, register CPLs and generate KDMs using OpenTDL facility data.
DCP Tools
Locate a CPL and its parent DCP, review package details, ingest new content and research composition metadata.
Slate Tools
Visualise the release schedule, research upcoming films and manage bookings, policy agreements and distributor offers.
DCP Cine Player
Playback, ingest and venue automation on Linux
A practical cinema player for DCP and media playback, show building, scheduling, calibration and automation.
More free cinema utilities
Registered users can also access DCP analysis, certificate and KDM inspection, release research and other operational utilities. The public product pages remain available without signing in.