The primary goal of this project is to build a PVR that can be used by people with hearing difficulties so that subtitles are recorded along with the television programs. When a program is played back the recorded subtitles are displayed along with the program. The from scratch in the title means that all the software used to build this system is royality free and has been built from source code.
While the primary goal of Freevo From Scratch is for people with hearing difficulties the information in this document is much more general and applies to any Freevo installation.