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-Creating a PKCS#12 certificate file using OpenSSL:
+# mrc
+
+[mpv video player]: https://mpv.io/
+
+Fast, robust and experimental JSON IPC wrapper for the [mpv video player]; comes
+with a wrapper library, a CLI and a server for remote control.
+
+## Hacking
+
+mrc does not handle TLS certificates for you. To run the remote control server,
+you must create your own PKCS#12 certificates using OpenSSL.
 
 ```bash
 openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 365
 openssl pkcs12 -export -out identity.pfx -inkey key.pem -in cert.pem
 ```
 
-Before running the server:
+mrc then read the `TLS_PFX_PATH` and `TLS_PASSWORD` environment variables to
+load them. You should also set `AUTH_TOKEN` for making authenticated requests to
+the server remotely. Running without an auth token is "supported", but the
+server will not fully function.
 
 ```bash
 export TLS_PFX_PATH=/path/to/identity.pfx
@@ -13,4 +26,7 @@ export TLS_PASSWORD="your_identity_passphrase"
 export AUTH_TOKEN="your_auth_token"
 ```
 
-How you handle environment is up to you, Systemd makes it somewhat easy.
+Then start the server with `cargo run --bin=server`.
+
+How you handle environment is up to you, Systemd makes it somewhat easy if
+running mrc as a service.