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+MythTV QUICKSTART
+=================
+This Arch Linux package provides a generic MythTV installation. It 
+requires extensive user configuration. This is a skeletal document, and 
+more extensive information is available in /usr/share/mythtv/docs.
+
+MythTV is split into a backend and a frontend. The backend records 
+television programming, keeps up with scheduling, does commercial 
+flagging, transcoding, and other such jobs. The frontend provides a 
+pretty GUI which allows playback and edition of the recorded programs. 
+It also provides a means to schedule recordings. There are a number of 
+plugins available for MythTV, and most of the official ones are 
+available as Arch packages. There are two configurations; the backend 
+and frontend can be on the same machine, or on two different machines on 
+the same network.
+
+Backend Configuration
+---------------------
+MythTV keeps the majority of its settings and program information in a 
+mysql database. Before running the backend configuration program, it is 
+necessary to initialize the datase. Make sure mysql is running properly.
+
+# mysql < /usr/share/mythtv/mc.sql
+
+If your frontend is going to be remote, you must allow other computers 
+on your network to have access to your database. Substitute 192.168.1.% 
+with whatever IP range you use. If you have a root mysql password (as 
+you should), leave the -p in the mysql command line. Otherwise remove 
+the switch.
+
+# mysql -u root -p
+  mysql> connect mythconverg;
+  mysql> grant all on mythconverg.* to mythtv@"192.168.1.%" identified by "mythtv";
+  mysql> flush privileges;
+  mysql> quit
+
+In order to configure the MythTV backend, you will need to run the 
+mythtv-setup program. Note that this requires X. If your backend is 
+headless, considering using vnc as a quick and dirty "fix".
+
+# mythtv-setup
+
+Go through all the menus. You will need to know information like your 
+capture card device (/dev/v4l/video[0-9]) and your program information 
+acquisition method. United States users will most likely subscribe to 
+Zap2it Labs' DataDirect service. It requires that users take a survey 
+every three months in order to continue service. This isn't as hard as 
+it sounds.
+
+It is necessary to update the database with all the current TV listings. 
+Run the mythfilldatabase program to grab the listings using whatever 
+method you specified in mythtv-setup.
+
+# mythfilldatabase
+
+Run mythbackend from the command line to make sure everything starts ok.
+
+# mythbackend
+
+If so, you may kill the task with "ctrl-c" on your keyboard, and add the 
+backend to /etc/rc.conf. In the DAEMONS line, just add "mythbackend" to 
+the list.
+
+In the future, you will need to run mythfilldatabase regularly. I allow 
+my frontend computer to do this, as it runs continuously, and it is an 
+option within MythTV. Otherwise, you can set up a cron job, or move 
+mythfilldatabasecron to /etc/cron.daily
+
+cp /usr/share/mythtv/mythfilldatabasecron /etc/cron.daily