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 November 6, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Our Approach To Live
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 asked...
Published on October 3, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
How Our New Mux Data Scoring Works
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 it...
Published on October 1, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Changes to the Mux Viewer Experience Score
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 Sco...
Published on September 10, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Introducing our Live Streaming API
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—you...
Published on August 28, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Announcing our New Real-Time Streaming Dashboard
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 ...
Published on August 20, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
“What is Mux Video?” and nine other questions, answered
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. ...
Published on August 16, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Instant GIFs! For animated video thumbnails and...whatever
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.
Published on May 10, 2018 (almost 7 years ago)
Securing Video Content with Signed URLs
“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 mobile...
Published on March 6, 2018 (almost 7 years ago)
The fastest video publishing in the multiverse
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 an...
Published on November 14, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Announcing Mux Video: a simple API to powerful video streaming
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, workfl...