Codec Wiki

A community maintained wiki for all things encoding.

Before You Contribute

1. By making a contribution to the Codec Wiki, you are communicating that you have read & agreed to our Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, & Code of Conduct.
2. Ensure your understanding of the material you're contributing is sufficient to a point where it is useful to the project. It is perfectly acceptable not to get everything right the first time, but always double check your contributions for factual correctness.
3. If you would like, connect with us via our Revolt server located at rvlt.gg/emxNXv1x. You can ask questions & communicate with other contributors here.

Clone & Push Instructions

Make sure to clone from & edit the main branch only, & push your final changes to the deployment branch according to the instructions below. Also be sure to use node 18 LTS, as later versions tend to be troublesome.

don't forget to add unimportant files to the .gitignore

1. Clone from the main branch to start to make a contribution:

% git clone [email protected]:av1-community-contributors/codec-wiki.git -b main

2. Test your changes locally before making a commit:

% yarn
% yarn start

3. Push changes to main branch:

% git add .
% git commit -m "Commit Message"
% git push -u origin main

4. Deploy to deployment branch to make live on site:

% GIT_USER=<username> DEPLOYMENT_BRANCH=deployment yarn deploy

Docusaurus Info

Website

This website is built using Docusaurus 3, a modern static website generator.

Installation

$ yarn

Local Development

$ yarn start

This command starts a local development server and opens up a browser window. Most changes are reflected live without having to restart the server.

Build

$ yarn build

This command generates static content into the build directory and can be served using any static contents hosting service.

Deployment

See initial instructions at the top.