Mux Blog - Video technology and more

Published on July 27, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

HTML, the Hero of the Web

By Wesley Luyten • 6 min read • Engineering

Here at Mux, we want to empower our users to make the most of our platform. Using web components to build out our Mux elements collection seemed like the most developer-friendly way to do that.

Published on July 13, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

@mux-elements are getting a new (old) home on npm: @mux!

By Christian Pillsbury • 8 min read • Engineering

All of our Mux Elements are moving from @mux-elements to @mux on npm. In this post, we explain why and introduce some steps we took and tools we built to help with your migration.

Published on June 13, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Staying up to date and organized with our Postman collection of API requests

By Thuy Doan • 2 min read • Engineering

Mux users can now easily interact with our API via our officially supported Postman collection. Once forked, your collection stays up to date with Mux's API changes.

A picture of a book with a bookmark in it. The book contains a digital video with a playback bar at the bottom.

Published on May 18, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Saving video playback progress in your application

By Dave Kiss • 5 min read • Engineering

In this article, you'll learn how to keep track of video playback progress by building recallable video playback into your application.

Published on April 18, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Envoy as a service-to-service proxy

By David Mather • 10 min read • Engineering

This miniseries will talk about some of Mux's usage of Envoy networking proxy within our Kubernetes clusters.

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Published on April 5, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

The skater punk’s guide to MediaRecorder

By Dave Kiss • 11 min read • Engineering

In this post, you'll be introduced to the MediaRecorder API and learn how it's not so different from operating a video camera IRL.

Two phone illustrations side-by-side. The left one is pink and represents polling. The right one is green and represents webhooks. On the left under polling, the user has to ask for data each time. This is represented by the user chatting to someone and then getting a response back with data. On the right under webhooks, the user never has to ask for data and just gets it. This is represented by the user never appearing in the chat.

Published on March 24, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Verify direct uploads with Mux webhooks

By Thuy Doan • 6 min read • Engineering

A step-by-step guide on how to use Cloudflare's secure tunelling software to test webhooks in local development.

A glowing upload button with a cursor hand about to click it.

Published on March 10, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Direct Uploads with Mux and an Upload Button

By Thuy Doan • 10 min read • Engineering

Build an end-to-end direct upload button with Mux Video API, React on the frontend, and Express on the backend.

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Published on January 18, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)

Make a stats video your MoM would be proud of

By Dave Kiss • 25 min read • Engineering

In this article, you'll learn how to showcase your video stats by creating a dynamic animated video using Remotion and the Mux Data API.

Published on December 2, 2021 (almost 3 years ago)

Building the next generation of video players with Media Chrome

By Dylan Jhaveri • 9 min read • Engineering

Here at Mux we've been quietly (or not so quietly) working on an open source project called Media Chrome. We're biased, of course, but as folks who have built a lot of players, we think we've really go...

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