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.
Published on April 13, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates and saved $750k
If you had asked me two years ago which sport a video startup needs to be most worried about, I would have said American football or basketball. My US-centric mind would never have considered that socc...
Published on April 11, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
How we got critical data everywhere, all at once
There’s a common anti-pattern in engineering orgs: one team comes up with a solution, then another team builds their own despite how similar the needs are. Rinse and repeat a few times. Eventually, you...
Published on April 3, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Lessons learned building headless chrome as a service
Over the last year, our team has been working on a new kind of web experience. We've hinted at its development during brand events and conference talks, and we're finally ready to reveal it on the ma...
Published on March 22, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Manipulate live video using nothing but HTML, CSS, and JS
Cloud infrastructure has made streaming video content to millions of people easier than ever. However, developers looking to add live video creation into their products have limited choices. Live vide...
Published on March 8, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Edge Config: first line of defense against script kiddies
Vercel's Edge Config can come in handy in many different ways. See how we used it to cut down on the amount of spam we were dealing with from our forms.
Published on March 3, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Maximize the real estate of your Real-Time broadcasts with the Crop layout
When we announced Mux Real-Time Video, we incorporated broadcasting functionality to allow you to livestream your real-time sessions to larger audiences and to store them as on-demand videos for future...
Published on March 2, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Ksssht, over: Walkie-Talkies and WebRTC ingest signaling
In this post, you'll learn how WebRTC-HTTP ingest protocol (or WHIP) provides the convenience of RTMP while maintaining the benefits of WebRTC.
Published on January 20, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
The building blocks of great docs
Great documentation is the backbone of a great API company. How do you scale it and keep a good experience? Learn about information architecture, Next.js 13, React Server Components, and Tailwind.
Published on January 6, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Winamp player: now with web components
In this post, we break down how you can rebuild the classic Winamp player using modern web components with media-chrome.
Published on December 5, 2022 (about 2 years ago)
If you can read this, your browser captions are broken
I’ve seen a lot of captions over the years, and there’s one thing I can tell you with certainty: The way that custom controls and the HTML video element interact right now is inadequate, and I think th...