Blog - HMV Mania

2024 Midyear Update with AV1 Encoding Plan

An AV1 re-conversion effort is in progress. Recap from previous update On May 22nd, we posted an update about a new encoding format being used for video releases going forward -- AV1. This has many...

New Encoding Format for Videos

We're utilizing a new encoding format for videos. Recent Videos You may have noticed a difference in the recent releases with the filenames containing av1 in them. First we'll provide some background on what videos...

New Site Mascot and 3000 Videos

We did it! 3000 videos and a new site mascot. 3000 Videos On May 3rd, 2024 the site reached 3,000 published videos! Specifically, there were 3,003 videos after that day's release excluding Welcome To HMV...

Road to 3000 Videos Update

Hello again, we have an important update about 2024 plans for the site. Current Videos and Remaining Space As of writing this post, the site currently has 2,951 published videos, excluding Welcome to HMV Mania....

New Year 2024 Update

Happy New Year! With 2023 over we have some stats to share along with site updates. Overview of 2023 Overall, 2023 was an interesting year. There was what we'll call the period of uncertainty, and...

End of August Update: 2000 videos reached!

After going back to consistent releases for almost 3 months, we've got some updates to close out August. 2,000 Videos On August 20th, HMV Mania reached 2,000 published videos! 🎉 We put up a spreadsheet...

Upcoming Goals and Road to 2k videos

Upcoming Goals and Road to 2k videos This post will cover some goals that we'll be looking at, and how we're going to be approaching 2,000 videos in the near future. Main topics: MAX 300:...

We’re back on the Legacy Server!

We're back with an extended server! Phase 2 of the server upgrade is now complete. We have the original server extended with more space that should last us until end of 2024. You can look...

Phase 1 Server Update

We have more space! Although it's not quite over yet. Server Update Phase 1 of the server update is complete as of Monday evening. This means we have more space for daily uploads in the...

March 2023 Server Update

An update about the two server situation. It's March 18th and there unfortunately has not been a resolution. While we are still actively discussing how to proceed behind the scenes, this post should provide some...