Mux Blog - Video technology and more

An image of a video player player with live in the upper left-hand corner. The player is broken up into 8 sections and around the player are 3 symbols: one of a globe, one representing a server stack, and one of a camera.

Published on April 16, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

Which live stream ingest protocol is right for you?

By Bobby Peck • 10 min read • Video education

SRT? RTMP? The choice of live ingest protocol has a meaningful impact on all areas of your stream. Learn about modern protocols and which is right for you.

A Swiss Army knife with various video player symbols (and a banana?) floating near each tool

Published on April 15, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

Why are video players so big? A trip down the rabbit hole of video playback engines

By Christian and Darius • 17 min read • Video education

A video playback engine enables more complex video use cases like adaptive bitrate streaming and DRM, but at the cost of bundle size. Is it worth it?

Graph representing the newest ad metrics to track ad playing time, failures, and startup time.

Published on April 12, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

Don’t press skip: Introducing new ad QoE metrics

By Steven Lyons • 8 min read • Product

Improve revenue and retention with your streaming video by ensuring your ad Quality of Experience. Learn how the latest Mux Data ad metrics can help.

Building blocks in the style of LEGO stacked together. The blue building block has a player symbol with a graph above it.

Published on April 11, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

Off with our head: How we're making Mux Data play nice with everything

By Eric Elia • 4 min read • Product

For data products to be fully utilized across an organization, they need to be interoperable and standards-based. Learn how we make this possible with Mux Data.

Published on April 10, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

Keeping up with the Node-ish ecosystem

By Dylan Jhaveri • 9 min read • Engineering

How we updated our legacy Node SDK to work with new JS runtimes like Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Deno and Vercel Edge functions.

On a blue background an icon of a video player with a graph above it with the word new written beside it

Published on April 9, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

Discover the latest Mux Data metrics and features

By Sarah Brown • 4 min read • Product

The Mux Data team has been hard at work building new metrics and next-level insights. Learn more about what they've been up to.

A mockup of an application where a thumbnail of a snowboarder is blurry, then replaced with a full-resolution image.

Published on March 28, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

A clear look at blurry image placeholders on the web

By Wesley Luyten • 7 min read • Engineering & Video education

Algorithms like BlurHash and ThumbHash are popular ways to render small, blurry images while the full-size images load, but are they necessary on the web?

Published on March 14, 2024 (2 months ago)

Live Streaming on Mux: More Secure, more Reliable, and more… Transport?

By Phil Cluff • 6 min read • Product

Mux live streaming just got even better. SRT, a modern ingest protocol that allows you to stream reliably on imperfect networks, is now available in public beta.