Mux Blog - Video technology and more

Published on January 24, 2024 (3 months ago)

How Spotify uses Mux to build the world’s most popular audio service and podcast platform

By Manifah Masood • 6 min read • Customers

Enabling them to resolve incidents faster and visualize the quality of users’ experiences with video, Mux Data is a vital part of Spotify's video podcast workflow.

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Published on January 18, 2024 (4 months ago)

Guau! Wauw! Vau! Wow! VOD auto-generated captions are now available in 22 languages!

By Phil Cluff • 3 min read • Product

21 new caption languages and an API to retroactively add captions — our GA announcement of VOD auto-generated, powered by OpenAI Whisper, is full of exciting ways to make content reach more audiences.

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Published on January 17, 2024 (4 months ago)

Introducing our coolest pricing lever yet: Automatic Cold Storage

By Meg Salisbury • 5 min read • Product

Introducing Automatic Cold Storage beta. Our newest pricing lever for assets that haven't been accessed for 30 days or more.

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Published on January 2, 2024 (4 months ago)

Render video templates on demand with Shotstack and Mux

By Jeff and Eric • 10 min read • Engineering

Learn how to build complete video workflows and combine uploads and edits, fully branded, inside an app or product.

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Published on December 11, 2023 (5 months ago)

Beyond content: the crucial metrics for successful ad-supported streaming

By Steven Lyons • 6 min read • Product

New Ad Metrics are now in beta for Mux Data. Monitor ad performance and delivery and how they impact your viewers' QoE.

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Published on December 6, 2023 (5 months ago)

The native mobile players you already use, with a sprinkle of Mux

By Dylan Jhaveri • 4 min read • Product

Now in beta: Mux Player SDKs for iOS and Android. Start using it today.

Published on December 5, 2023 (5 months ago)

Practical Client-side Rust for Android, iOS, and Web

By Emily Dixon • 12 min read • Engineering

Can you use Rust to write your CPU-intensive code once and ship it everywhere — iOS, Android, and the web? Follow along to find out.

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Published on November 30, 2023 (5 months ago)

Let’s talk video… [wait for it]... latency

By Lamia Chlala • 6 min read • Product

We’re excited to announce the general availability of two key latency features: Live Stream Latency monitoring metric and low-latency live streaming.

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Published on November 27, 2023 (5 months ago)

How to add a background video in Next.js

By Adam Jaggard • 4 min read • Engineering

Learn how to add a responsive background video to a landing page using Next.js and Mux in this step-by-step tutorial. Grab the code and start building

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Published on November 10, 2023 (6 months ago)

Track video playback progress and display a video heatmap with React

By Dave Kiss • 6 min read • Engineering

In this article, we’ll go over one way you can set up viewer playback tracking and generate a video heatmap to display in a React app.

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