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.

On a yellow background, an image depicting video chapters. Highlights "Chapter 2: Coffee".

Published on June 27, 2024 (7 months ago)

AI-generated chapters for your videos with Mux Player

By Adam Jaggard • 6 min read • Product & Engineering • AI

Chaptering your video just got easier. Learn how to use auto-generated captions and AI to add chapters to your videos in Mux Player.

On a black screen is a timeline from 23:30-5:30. At the 2:30 mark there's a red line that leads to an alert -- a triangle with an exclamation point

Published on June 14, 2024 (7 months ago)

Patience overflow: a debugging tale old as time

By Mike Smith • 6 min read • Product & Engineering

Read about how we found and fixed a tricky SRT live streaming bug and the lessons we (re)learned about handling timestamp edge cases.

Published on May 31, 2024 (8 months ago)

How to build video activity notifications in Next.js

By Jeff and Dave • 9 min read • Engineering

This post explores how you can use Mux and Knock to build out scaleable, thoughtful, and battle-tested notifications for your video apps.

Published on May 21, 2024 (8 months ago)

How to build a media player with Tailwind CSS and Web Components

By Wesley Luyten • 9 min read • Engineering

Tailwind CSS and Web Components are incredible tools for rapidly building in HTML. Let's see how, by building an audio player with Media Chrome.

Published on May 17, 2024 (8 months ago)

Migrate your video files between video hosting services for free

By Dave Kiss • 6 min read • Engineering

Migrate your video content between the world’s most trusted video providers with ease. Truckload helps you move your videos to your new video platform home.

Two boxes, one labeled server and the other labeled client, are closely connected by two lines.

Published on May 16, 2024 (8 months ago)

React 19 lets you write impossible components

By Darius Cepulis • 13 min read • Engineering

What can you do with Server Components and Actions in React 19? Let’s talk about how React 19’s features are a big deal, even for a simple marketing site.

Setting relationship status in Facebook to In an open (source) relationship

Published on May 3, 2024 (9 months ago)

Facebook just updated its relationship status with web components

By Dylan Jhaveri • 5 min read • Engineering

Learn about React 19 introducing support for web components and what that means for React developers and web component authors.

video player with lock icon in the center

Published on May 1, 2024 (9 months ago)

If someone can watch it, they can steal it: securing video content on the internet

By Dylan Jhaveri • 16 min read • Engineering • Stream security

Understand how attackers steal video content and what you can do to prevent downloading, unauthorized playback, screen recording with signed URLs and DRM

Published on April 10, 2024 (10 months 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.

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 (10 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?

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