Mux Blog - Video technology and more

Published on May 31, 2024 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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 (8 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.

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Published on May 1, 2024 (8 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 (9 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 (9 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?

Image of a phone with 2 people talking and captions at the bottom of the screen. To the left of the phone is a line connecting the phone to a box with the closed caption symbol.

Published on January 31, 2024 (11 months ago)

AI models on CPUs: accurate audio transcriptions without breaking the bank

By Colton Karoses • 7 min read • Engineering • AI

AI models like Whisper and OpenCLIP are making image tagging and speech-to-text transcription, two tasks that once required a team of PhDs, seem trivial — but, whew, are they expensive! …Or are they? ...

A partnership design featuring the Mux and Shotstack logos

Published on January 2, 2024 (12 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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