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 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 (about 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...
Published on November 1, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Announcing full data exports
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 measurements...
Published on August 31, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Real-time CDN switching with Mux and Cedexis
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, ISPs...
Published on August 25, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Video View Page Revisited
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 br...
Published on August 21, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Improvements to Error-Rate Alerting
In January 2017 Mux announced support for error-rate alerts in our analytics service. Learn about improvements to alert actionability and visibility.
Published on July 26, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API
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 person tha...