MythMkMovie is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPL). Please read the file LICENSE.TXT for more details.

External Requirements:
* The perl Curses module. Available at CPAN (http://www.cpan.org/)
  To install under RedHat, please view the article located at:
    http://groups.google.com/groups?q=perl-Curses&start=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&selm=001301c2fab9%24583112a0%245100a8c0%40egp&rnum=25


* libpng 1.2.5 (mencoder requires this to work correctly with mythmkmovie)

* mencoder/mplayer patched for MythTV files.
  mencoder/mplayer at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
  mencoder/mplayer patch at http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu:8088/~mdz/mythtv/
  NOTE: This must be the version 1.0 release!

* MythTV (0.9) available at http://www.mythtv.org/

* DBI and DBD::mysql (both available in http://www.cpan.org/)

* If reencoding mpeg files (such as those created by Hauppauge PVR-[23]50 cards)
  you need the transcode package.  
  For apt users: apt-get install transcode
  Homepage: http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/

Installation of this script is very simple. Execute the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

And you're done. After that, you can read the man page (man mkmovie), or
begin using it by typing in this command:

mkmovie

To uninstall it, go to the directory where you unpacked the archive (usually,
this directory you're in while reading this file), and type this command:

make realclean

If you have any feedback, please email it to michael.j.pedersen@verizon.net

I hope you enjoy using MythMkMovie!
