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When you’re streaming video over the Internet, there are many reasons to support subtitles and closed captions.

This year we released features that made it easier to get started with Mux, improved video quality, and answered our customers’ requests.

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 ...

With the new Simulcast Targets feature, developers can now let their users publish live streams on social platforms.

Use Mux to add video in your Contentful CMS content. Transcode MP4 and playback HLS videos.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Integrate Mux Data with Shaka Player to track quality of experience and viewer playback data. Understand your video performance.

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 ...

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. ...

Announcing a reduced latency option for our live streaming API with latency as low as 8 seconds using any modern video player.

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, ...

Ruby is a great language to write scripts, tests, websites, and software stacks.

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.

We’re introducing a new metrics page that provides a deeper level of data to help you resolve streaming issues even faster.

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 ) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using Erlang’s OTP and Phoenix’s Channel / Presence to manage large real-time data sets across many channel topics Our real-time analytics product requires a scalable system with high availability an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In January 2017 Mux announced support for error-rate alerts in our analytics service. Learn about improvements to alert actionability and visibility.

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 ...

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.

Part one in a two part series about how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. Part two covers the technical implementation.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...