The Mux Blog

We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

Illustration of a command-line interface window with a dark theme. The window has a title bar labeled "CLI" with minimize and close buttons, and displays a green terminal prompt cursor on a black background. The window sits on a dark grid background with faint horizontal lines below it.

Published on March 24, 2026 (10 days ago)

Ship your next Mux integration from the terminal

By Dave Kiss • 11 min read • Engineering & Product

We refreshed the Mux CLI to give developers and AI coding agents a structured, terminal-native interface to the entire Mux video API.

Mux and Convex logos with a red background

Published on March 18, 2026 (17 days ago)

The new Mux Convex component

By Joshua Alphonse • 5 min read • Engineering

The @mux/convex component wires up database tables, webhook handling and reactive queries so your app always knows the state of your video assets.

Published on March 3, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

React is changing the game for streaming apps with the Activity component

By Joshua Alphonse • 8 min read • Engineering

Learn how to use React 19.2's Activity component to prevent video playback from resetting or playing in the background when users hides and shows a video player.

A stack of video frames. A few frames in the middle of the stack appear to be glitched, as though corrupted.

Published on March 2, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

What we learned from a 22-Day storage bug (and how we fixed it)

By Drew and Constantin • 16 min read • Engineering

Between Jan 8 and Feb 4, a stack of small behaviors produced unexpected corrupted video segments. Here's exactly what went wrong and how we fixed it.

A robot illustration nested within a browser illustration. Composed on a blue background with thin black grid lines.

Published on January 28, 2026 (2 months ago)

Agentic screen recording in the browser

By Dave Kiss • 13 min read • Engineering

Learn how you can use agent-browser and a custom MCP to direct agentic screen recordings with commentary and upload them to Mux for distributed playback.

Green gak slimes its way down over the top of a white play icon layered above a blue background. What a mess!

Published on December 22, 2025 (3 months ago)

An extra-sloppy TikTok-style video feed in React Native

By Dave and Joshua • 8 min read • Engineering

In this article, learn how to build an optimized video feed by creating an infinite-doom-scroll slop machine. Go on, we know you've been dreaming of it.