As you may have noticed, I had to slow down the transcoders.
Yes, they operate super fast and can transcode all our back episodes in a very short time as previously reported.
However… they cost a lot of money! Le gasp!
As you can imagine, Category5 TV back episodes take up a lot of space on the web. Over a terabyte as a matter of fact. So transcoding, uploading and distributing all 300+ episodes all in one fell swoop was a bad idea from a cost perspective.
So I slowed things down to a more manageable price point so I can space the cost out over multiple months.
Okay, all that said, exciting news this weekend: Category5 TV SEASON 4 is now entirely transcoded and available for on-demand viewing at http://www.category5.tv/episodes-season-4.php!
It is my dream that one day all 7 seasons (and beyond) of Category5 TV will be available for on-demand viewing, and this brings us just a little bit closer to this goal.
Many of the episode content will be dated (as we’re talking episodes which are 3 or 4 years old), but there is still some excellent information in there, such as understanding how to safely dispose of a computer to avoid your private data being compromized, enhancing photographs with the GIMP, how to create panoramic photographs using a standard digital camera, creating mosaic images from hundreds or thousands of photographs, and even our popular web development series in its entirety.
Enjoy these “new” old episodes! Now, to begin tackling Season 3!
-Robbie
Next time run the transcoders on windows, that way they will always be slow 🙂