MythTV Book:Community Portal

From MythTV Book

When parts of the first edition of the MythTV book became out of date, we decided to take the book online and ask others to help us improve it and bring it up to date. There is a blog for announcements, at http://mythtvbook.com/blog. If you're interested in helping out, please visit the HelpWanted page. There is also a Credits page for people who have helped out with this project.

This page is targeted towards people intending to make edits to chapters on this wiki.

Contents 1 Style Guide 1.1 Screenshot Creation 2 Useful Information 3 Sample Videos 4 Content Graveyard

Style Guide

Please following these formatting instructions:

• Use the source syntax highlighter. Details at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
• Use bold for program names, and italics for filenames.

Screenshot Creation

Screen shots are taken with the Gnome screen capture applet or the ksnapshot utility where possible.

For Gnome, use the options:

• Current window

For ksnapshot, use options:

• Capture Mode: Section of Window
• Untick 'Include window decorations'

Image size should be 640x480 or 800x600

Useful Information

There are stock images which are used throughout this wiki. Before uploading an image, please make sure that there isn't one in this collection already, and when you add an image, please add it to this collection as well. That means that when an image is updated, only one place needs to be updated and all users will end up with the new image.

• Diagrammatic Images
• Lirc Images
• MythBuntu Images
• MythNetTV Images
• Pidgin Images
• Remote Control Images
• TiVo Images
• Ubuntu Images

Sample Videos

The Internet Archive has a list of open source videos that we can use for samples throughout the book. I have been using this video for my samples.

Content Graveyard

The Graveyard is where content goes to peacefully await it's maker. Specifically, in moving from the first edition to the second edition, there were some passages which didn't fit into the new layout. Instead of deleting them forever, they're put into the Graveyard until we find the right place for them.