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We’re a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.
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04/07/21
April 7, 2021
(13 days ago)
2 min read
More control and management capabilities across Mux
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
2 min read
We’re excited to give all Mux customers an additional layer of control to manage their accounts with Multi-Organization User Access.
04/06/21
April 6, 2021
(14 days ago)
2 min read
Improved visibility into your users’ experience
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
2 min read
To help you better improve the quality of your viewers’ experience and diagnose and debug issues, we’ve improved device detection to be more accurate. Because video experiences can vary widely by dev ...
03/16/21
March 16, 2021
(a month ago)
4 min read
Fast and accurate Clipping for VOD and live streaming
by
Bonnie & Josh
Product
4 min read
Announcing our most requested feature, Clipping. It creates clips that are available immediately and gives the ability to select the exact time to begin and end the clip.
02/24/21
February 24, 2021
(2 months ago)
3 min read
Monitoring the health of your live stream
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
3 min read
What’s critical for any live stream is knowing that it’s working well. We’re happy to introduce our new Live Stream Input Health dashboard which shows the health of your live stream.
01/05/21
January 5, 2021
(3 months ago)
4 min read
Go live reliably from mobile with our updated Android and iOS examples
by
Phil Cluff
Product
4 min read
Phil announces updates to the Mux examples for live streaming from iOS and Android.
12/18/20
December 18, 2020
(4 months ago)
2 min read
Subtitles by DEFAULT
by
Justin Greer
Product
2 min read
Mux now supports setting the DEFAULT flag so you can enable captions on autoplaying video that is muted.
12/17/20
December 17, 2020
(4 months ago)
2 min read
Program Date Time: Open Beta Launch!
by
Ashok Lalwani
Product
2 min read
Have you ever wondered how you can synchronize video playback with other components on your webpage? Or better yet, created a watch party with viewers playing the same live stream? Wonder no more -- ...
12/04/20
December 4, 2020
(5 months ago)
5 min read
Reconnect Windows and Clean Stream Exits
by
Ed Ropple
Product
5 min read
The Internet is not always the most reliable thing in the world, and live streaming inherits a lot of that. When running a live event, production teams often have to take into account the vagaries of ...
11/23/20
November 23, 2020
(5 months ago)
5 min read
Mux Data, now twice as helpful!
by
Steven Lyons
Product
5 min read
Earlier this year, we undertook a big project to replace the data backend Mux Data uses for our metrics, views, and errors. It was a “replacing the engines on the airplane while flying” project and ...
11/11/20
November 11, 2020
(5 months ago)
4 min read
It’s Tricky: Storyboards and Trick Play
by
Josh Allmann
Product
4 min read
Announcement of Storyboards with the Mux Video API
10/08/20
October 8, 2020
(6 months ago)
5 min read
Monitor Viewer Experience Problems with new Customizable Alerts
by
Steven Lyons
Product
5 min read
When Mux adds new features to any of its products, we try hard to make sure that the feature is easy to use and valuable by default. This led us to develop our existing anomaly-detection-based alerti ...
10/07/20
October 7, 2020
(6 months ago)
4 min read
New Integration Announcement: Strapi CMS
by
Erik Peña
Product
4 min read
Enabling upload of video content to Mux through Strapi CMS so that custom collection types can be tied to assets for a holistic metadata model.
09/25/20
September 25, 2020
(7 months ago)
3 min read
Mux API: With GraphQL Powered by OneGraph
by
Dylan Jhaveri
Product
3 min read
Mux Video API can now be used with GraphQL (powered by OneGraph).
09/10/20
September 10, 2020
(7 months ago)
4 min read
Survive CDN failures with Redundant Streams
by
Phil Cluff
Product
4 min read
Learn how you can use Mux's Redundant Streams feature to make your events more resilient to larger, internet wide service outages, such as CDN failures.
08/20/20
August 20, 2020
(8 months ago)
6 min read
New bitrate data to optimize viewing experience across devices
by
Steven Lyons
Product
6 min read
One of the important factors in viewing experience is the bitrate that is played on a device. Mux Data now provides a few different ways to view bitrate data collected from viewer streams.
06/26/20
June 26, 2020
(10 months ago)
8 min read
Respond to and Resolve Incidents with the Real-Time Dashboard
by
Steven Lyons
Product
8 min read
Our new Real-Time Dashboard features make things easier to manage when an outage or customer-impacting incident occurs. See what steps you should follow in resolving any incident.
05/11/20
May 11, 2020
(a year ago)
5 min read
Access to all your data via the Real-Time Dashboard API
by
Steven Lyons
Product
5 min read
We know a single interface is an important part of customers’ monitoring infrastructure so we wanted to make it easy to use existing tools but still have access to the low-latency, real-time metrics.
05/11/20
May 11, 2020
(a year ago)
4 min read
Reporting Flexibility with New Advanced Filtering
by
Steven Lyons
Product
4 min read
With advanced filtering, Mux Data has the reporting flexibility to match the complexity of the issues you're trying to resolve.
01/15/20
January 15, 2020
(a year ago)
3 min read
We now support subtitles and closed captions! [Crowd cheers]
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
3 min read
When you’re streaming video over the Internet, there are many reasons to support subtitles and closed captions.
12/19/19
December 19, 2019
(a year ago)
6 min read
Product Recap 2019 (aka Mux Rundown)
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
6 min read
This year we released features that made it easier to get started with Mux, improved video quality, and answered our customers’ requests.
11/15/19
November 15, 2019
(a year ago)
5 min read
New Feature: Delivery Usage API (a.k.a. tracking usage for your next big idea)
by
Justin Sanford
Product
5 min read
Appease me while I tell you a story; maybe one of you can help me. One night a few weeks ago, I woke up with a great idea for the next huge app. I know, you’ve heard this story, but stick with me for ...
11/11/19
November 11, 2019
(a year ago)
2 min read
Seeing double? Let your users simulcast (aka restream) to any social platform
by
Steve Heffernan
Product
2 min read
With the new Simulcast Targets feature, developers can now let their users publish live streams on social platforms.
10/17/19
October 17, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
New Integration Announcement: Contentful
by
Dylan Jhaveri
Product
2 min read
Use Mux to add video in your Contentful CMS content. Transcode MP4 and playback HLS videos.
10/08/19
October 8, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
Listen up! Mux now normalizes the volume of your audio.
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
2 min read
What’s worse: When you hit play on a video and the audio BLASTS into your headphones? Or when the sound is just low enough you can almost, not quite, hear what’s going on? IMHO (In Mux’s humble opin ...
10/01/19
October 1, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
Have you heard? We support audio-only files, too.
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
2 min read
You can now use Mux to manage your audio assets in addition to your videos. Send your audio assets to us and we’ll give you an audio-only HLS stream.
09/11/19
September 11, 2019
(2 years ago)
3 min read
Mux Data - Same Useful Features, Just Better
by
Justin Sanford
Product
3 min read
When we launched Mux Data nearly four years ago, we included the ability to drill deeply into each individual view directly in the dashboard. We have since iterated on this feature a few times, addin ...
08/21/19
August 21, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
New SDK Alert: Shaka Player + Mux Data 🤙
by
Dylan Jhaveri
Product
2 min read
Integrate Mux Data with Shaka Player to track quality of experience and viewer playback data. Understand your video performance.
08/16/19
August 16, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
New : Test Mux Video features for free ✨
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
2 min read
We’re excited to introduce test assets–the latest feature from Mux Video that gives you the ability to play with and test the most powerful video API on the market, all without spending a penny. Test ...
08/09/19
August 9, 2019
(2 years ago)
3 min read
Announcing Webhook Signatures - How Do I Know I Can Trust You?
by
Justin Sanford
Product
3 min read
I have the privilege of being able to work directly with Mux customers on a day to day basis, and I get to experience first hand the amazing applications that they’re building on top of our platform. ...
07/12/19
July 12, 2019
(2 years ago)
3 min read
Reduced latency for Mux Live Streaming now available
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
3 min read
Announcing a reduced latency option for our live streaming API with latency as low as 10 seconds using a modern video player.
05/08/19
May 8, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
Get going with Mux Go!
by
Phil Cluff
Product
2 min read
We write a lot of Go at Mux… seriously, a lot of Go. Why? Well, Go is a great systems level language for building reliable, low level software, while still being flexible enough to build high level, ...
04/18/19
April 18, 2019
(2 years ago)
1 min read
Introducing Mux Ruby
by
Phil Cluff
Product
1 min read
Ruby is a great language to write scripts, tests, websites, and software stacks.
04/08/19
April 8, 2019
(2 years ago)
3 min read
Announcing Audience Adaptive Encoding for better video quality with less buffering
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
3 min read
We’re excited to introduce Audience Adaptive Encoding, an encoding method that uses viewer data to deliver the best quality video tailored to your audience.
04/02/19
April 2, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
Get to the root cause (even) faster with new real-time metric breakdowns
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
2 min read
We’re introducing a new metrics page that provides a deeper level of data to help you resolve streaming issues even faster.
04/01/19
April 1, 2019
(2 years ago)
3 min read
Is it recording yet? New Live Stream Webhook Events!
by
Steve Heffernan
Product
3 min read
We just added a few new events to Mux's Live Streams that let you build more helpful UIs for streamers and help debug issues when they happen. These include: CONNECTED ( video.live_stream.connected ) ...
02/15/19
February 15, 2019
(2 years ago)
1 min read
Introducing Mux Python
by
Phil Cluff
Product
1 min read
Today we’re introducing the first of several new SDKs we’ll be releasing over the coming months, Mux Python 🐍. Mux Python is a lightweight wrapper around Mux’s APIs, which make it easy to integrat ...
02/01/19
February 1, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
Node & Elixir SDK Updates: Signed URL JWT Helpers and more!
by
Matthew McClure
Product
2 min read
We spend a lot of time thinking about how we can make our products easy and fun to work with. Our public API is something we hope people find intuitive and reasonable, but the last thing you want to ...
01/14/19
January 14, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
Introducing filters for the Real-Time Dashboard
by
Steven Striegel
Product
2 min read
Since launching our real-time dashboard a few months ago we’ve seen it have enormous impact. Now it gets a powerful little update: 7 new filter dimensions.
12/17/18
December 17, 2018
(2 years ago)
3 min read
Introducing Direct Uploads
by
Matthew McClure
Product
3 min read
We’re thrilled to announce that getting your videos into Mux just got a little easier. 🙂 Starting today, you can now push content directly to Mux. 🎉 Up until now, if you wanted to create a new Mux ...
12/03/18
December 3, 2018
(2 years ago)
3 min read
New Feature: Master Access lets you download the highest quality of a video
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
3 min read
Right on the heels of our new MP4 Support feature, we bring you Master Access. While MP4 Support can allow users of your app to share a video more easily or watch the video offline, Master Access (a ...
11/12/18
November 12, 2018
(2 years ago)
4 min read
MP4 Support Added. Unleash offline viewing!
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
4 min read
When playing video for your viewers, we almost always recommend the HLS video format (Mux's default, a.k.a. M3U8). HLS is: Widely supported by pretty much every browser and device. A better viewing ...
11/06/18
November 6, 2018
(2 years ago)
5 min read
Our Approach To Live
by
Nicholas Chadwick
Product
5 min read
What makes a great live streaming video API? This is a question Mux tackled when building our live streaming API earlier this year. We began by looking at some of the most common scenarios folks aske ...
10/03/18
October 3, 2018
(3 years ago)
6 min read
How Our New Mux Data Scoring Works
by
Ben Dodson
Product
6 min read
We were recently excited to announce our new scoring update for Mux Data. Here is an in-depth look into how and why we decided to change our Viewer Experience Score for the better. Score... what is ...
10/01/18
October 1, 2018
(3 years ago)
8 min read
Changes to the Mux Viewer Experience Score
by
Jon Dahl
Product
8 min read
One of our goals with Mux Data is to provide meaningful data about video performance at a quick glance, while also providing the ability to drill deep when needed. We created the Viewer Experience S ...
09/10/18
September 10, 2018
(3 years ago)
5 min read
Introducing our Live Streaming API
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
5 min read
If you’ve been trying to build live streaming into your application—whether it’s “Twitch for X”, online classrooms, a news & sports broadcasting platform, or something the world’s never seen before—y ...
08/28/18
August 28, 2018
(3 years ago)
4 min read
Announcing our New Real-Time Streaming Dashboard
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Product
4 min read
In the world of streaming video, real-time metrics are a necessity and can help you catch issues ranging from a little video stuttering to a full blown World-cup style meltdown. (Too soon?) While our ...
08/20/18
August 20, 2018
(3 years ago)
4 min read
“What is Mux Video?” and nine other questions, answered
by
Jon Dahl
Product
4 min read
When you’re a startup, one of the most common questions you have to answer is: “What exactly do you do?” We’re answering this question all the time - on our website, on customer calls, at conferences ...
08/16/18
August 16, 2018
(3 years ago)
4 min read
Instant GIFs! For animated video thumbnails and...whatever
by
Matthew McClure
Product
4 min read
Our nifty new feature can instantly create a GIF from video. Just GET a URL and you can create a 5-10 second animated GIF from any part of a video.
05/10/18
May 10, 2018
(3 years ago)
6 min read
Securing Video Content with Signed URLs
by
Scott Kidder
Product
6 min read
“Our video streams have been hacked.” That was the rumour floating around the office of my past employer in February 2008. I was a software engineer working on the video encoding pipeline for a mobil ...
03/06/18
March 6, 2018
(3 years ago)
3 min read
The fastest video publishing in the multiverse
by
Jon Dahl
Product
3 min read
Video publishing speed is a usability problem. When a user hits the "upload" button, they don't want to have to wait a few minutes (or longer) to see their video play. But that's what happens almost ...
11/14/17
November 14, 2017
(3 years ago)
4 min read
Announcing Mux Video: a simple API to powerful video streaming
by
Jon Dahl
Product
4 min read
Online video is growing exponentially, but still it's too hard to stream video. Video is too hard (as we discussed last week). Every area of video infrastructure - encoding, playback, delivery, workf ...
11/01/17
November 1, 2017
(3 years ago)
3 min read
Announcing full data exports
by
Jon Dahl
Product
3 min read
A quality of experience analytics platform like Mux does three things. Accurately measure what happens when someone watches a video, across different platforms and devices. Collect those measurem ...
08/31/17
August 31, 2017
(4 years ago)
3 min read
Real-time CDN switching with Mux and Cedexis
by
Jon Dahl
Product
3 min read
Video publishing sometimes feels like a Rube Goldberg machine . To get a single video to play back successfully, a dozen different systems need to play nicely together: websites, players, browsers, I ...
08/25/17
August 25, 2017
(4 years ago)
4 min read
Video View Page Revisited
by
Jacqui Manzi
Product
4 min read
We recently redesigned our aggregate metric charts and decided to take another look at how we help customers make sense of individual video views. Previously, the top portion of our video view page ...
08/21/17
August 21, 2017
(4 years ago)
2 min read
Improvements to Error-Rate Alerting
by
Scott Kidder
Product
2 min read
In January 2017 Mux announced support for error-rate alerts in our analytics service. Learn about improvements to alert actionability and visibility.
07/26/17
July 26, 2017
(4 years ago)
3 min read
It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API
by
Matthew McClure
Product
3 min read
We're proud to call ourselves a developer-focused company. We want developers to want to use our products and actually enjoy it when they do. When we build new features or tools, we want the perso ...
06/30/17
June 30, 2017
(4 years ago)
12 min read
So we redid our charts... (Part II: Graphing, React-ing, and maybe a little crying)
by
Matthew McClure
Product
12 min read
Part 2/2 in a series on how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. We'll explore a few charting libraries and talk about how we picked ours.
06/22/17
June 22, 2017
(4 years ago)
9 min read
So we redid our charts... (Part I: designs and such)
by
Steven Striegel
Product
9 min read
Part one in a two part series about how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. Part two covers the technical implementation.
04/06/17
April 6, 2017
(4 years ago)
2 min read
Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup
by
Steve Heffernan
Product
2 min read
We started Mux because we saw what the most advanced video companies had built to monitor their viewer experience, and we wanted to bring it to everyone.
03/30/17
March 30, 2017
(4 years ago)
6 min read
Recover from Rebuffering: Mux Metrics Explained
by
Eliot Miller
Product
6 min read
Rebuffering can be the most frustrating part of online video for viewers. In this Article we're going to troubleshoot buffering issues with Mux metrics
03/14/17
March 14, 2017
(4 years ago)
6 min read
The Video Startup Time metric explained
by
Eliot Miller
Product
6 min read
Although Video Startup Time sounds like a simple metric it is vital to understand, but elusive to measure. Here at Mux we know our metrics.
02/11/17
February 11, 2017
(4 years ago)
2 min read
New Dimension - ASNs (What are those?)
by
Justin Sanford
Product
2 min read
Here at Mux, we're working hard at providing valuable insight* into your viewer's experience. One of the ways we do this is with specific dimensions, such as browser, operating system, and country (a ...
01/20/17
January 20, 2017
(4 years ago)
3 min read
Announcing Alerting
by
Matthew McClure
Product
3 min read
One of the core beliefs we have at Mux is that everything we do should help customers improve their platform and viewer experience. We help them understand the overall health of their video delivery ...
11/15/16
November 15, 2016
(4 years ago)
2 min read
What's new: metric comparisons and global scores
by
Jon Dahl
Product
2 min read
We've shipped two new features at Mux over the last two weeks. The first is a tool to compare all metrics across two or more specific values. The second is a global benchmark that gives customers an ...
10/07/16
October 7, 2016
(5 years ago)
3 min read
Six things you can do with Mux
by
Jon Dahl
Product
3 min read
Since starting Mux this year, we've talked with scores of video publishers. Almost everyone wants more data about their video streaming, and usually people have a couple of specific uses for this da ...
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