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Hi all,
exactly what it says on the tin above. I find this forum really easy to nav about UNTIL I try to find wiki talk things! I am an admin over on NextPVR wiki. So do understand wiki isues....
I have just spent 1/2 hour trying to follow what I thought were wiki threads. It gave me a good handle (I think) but IMHO not really easy to follow?
Could not the forum discussion be further broken down to make it more clear?
cheers all, and love this work over @ xbmc
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what do you mean - a dedicated subforum or maybe a topic tag [wiki] (like [Feature request], [WIP], ...)?
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Hi da-anda
I couldn't be clear/say what I meant because it is much easier over at NextPVR! We do not have to deal with the amount of traffic you lot do over here @ xbmc :-)
I would have thought along the lines of a sub-forum? That way it woyuld be much easier to navigate straight to everything that was within a wiki forum other than just bundled into a general:
"Website and Forum issues or Suggestions"
where there is no specific trace for wiki talk?
Just ideas, I am finding it hard navigating your wiki talk, but then you lot know your forum well, I don't ;-)
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2012-11-14, 00:40
(This post was last modified: 2012-11-14, 00:41 by Martijn.)
What wiki talk? This is a support forum. Wiki is completely separate from the forum. If you think something is missing in the wiki just register and update it
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Generally speaking, we've simply used whatever forum was related to the page being edited. For example, there's a thread in the PVR forum about getting the PVR wiki guide written. When the iOS FAQ was written we made an iOS Help Forum post, etc. If people are unsure where to post about the wiki they can always post in this forum for "website issues". I have no opposition to something more organized, but so far there doesn't seem to be enough wiki-specific discussion for a wiki-specific forum. I'm totally open to ideas, though.
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Due to the low price and standard hardware, the Pi makes for an easy recommendation for users who need a low-power/always-on backend server when paired with a USB tuner. While the easiest ways to install PVR servers that can run on the Pi are using OpenELEC, it should be easy to find/create a distro that a user can just go and write to an SD card, slap it in, slap in the USB tuner, and go, just as one would for some of the ready-to-go hardware PVR backends, like the Njoy. In other words, the Pi wouldn't even need to be running XBMC at all.
At least that was my thinking on it. I'm sure it could be better explained, or moved to another page that says something like "need an alternative solution? try this", etc.
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Thanks Ned Scott. Understand your thinking here now. I do not think it is quite clear but really appreciate all the work you are doing on this. I guess a 'limitations' info about the Pi may help? For instance as a PVR server I don't think a Pi could handle 6 x USB TV Cards plugged into it running at one time?
Fully appreciate that this PVR stuff is very new to xbmc, but already exciting the PVR community!
cheers