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Picture of a tattoo showing the word "mom" inside of a heart, along with an uptrending line chart

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

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss25 min readEngineering

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.

media-chrome HTML elements

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

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri9 min readEngineering

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...

Dog wearing a sweater and glasses looking at a computer

Published on November 4, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

Ashley Huynh
By Ashley Huynh13 min readEngineering

Learn how to build a simple React app to surface a video's real-time view and unique viewer counts within the video player!

Published on September 7, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder11 min readEngineering

Read how Mux has used Flink over the course of 5 years, lessons learned, and future improvements.

Published on August 18, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri10 min readEngineeringAI

Learn how to build an automated content moderation workflow with Mux Video and Hive.ai (including an open source example)

Published on July 14, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Drew Rodman
By Drew Rodman18 min readEngineering

Learn how to use Kafka transactions to accurately process CDN logs at scale.

Published on June 7, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri4 min readEngineering

There appears to be a bug in Mobile Safari’s default HLS.js implementation on an iPhone when it comes to looping short-form videos.

Published on May 27, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri9 min readEngineering

In this post, we walk through how to persist audio in your iOS app when the application goes into the background.

Published on April 20, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Scott Kidder
Justin Sanford
By Scott and Justin10 min readEngineering

Maybe you’re not planning an event with millions of concurrent viewers, but our takeaways from monitoring one of the biggest sporting events of the year are applicable to live streams of all sizes.

Simulacra

Published on April 12, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Dmitry Ilyevsky
By Dmitry Ilyevsky13 min readEngineering

While hunting for a pesky live streaming bug, we discovered that virtual load balancers don’t always simulate their physical counterparts the way you might expect.