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 September 9, 2024 (7 months ago)

Mux Data now with long-ER term metrics

By Ashley Cutler • 4 min read • Product

Introducing long-term storage for Mux Data, giving customers more flexibility to analyze video performance over time. Now in private beta.

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Published on August 29, 2024 (7 months ago)

Not so basic anymore: More features for basic assets

By Phil Cluff • 5 min read • Product • Pricing

Updated 10/31/24: MP4 support is now available for basic quality assets. Learn more Yesterday Meg and I bid a tearful "arrivederci" to encoding tiers, and introduced their replacement — video quality ...

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Published on August 28, 2024 (7 months ago)

No one said naming was easy: Encoding tiers are now video quality levels

By Phil and Meg • 6 min read • Product • Video quality & Pricing

We’ve updated some of our naming conventions to make life even easier when selecting the right video quality for you.

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Published on July 18, 2024 (8 months ago)

Save up to 60% on storage costs with Automatic Cold Storage

By Lamia Chlala • 4 min read • Product • Pricing

Save up to 60% on storage for videos that haven’t been watched much lately. Automatic Cold Storage is now GA.

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Published on July 11, 2024 (9 months ago)

Introducing DRM: The latest tool in protecting your content on Mux

By Phil Cluff • 7 min read • Product • Stream security

DRM is now in beta for Mux Video. Learn about the newest tool in stream protection offered by Mux and how you can join the beta waitlist.

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Published on July 9, 2024 (9 months ago)

When your failures become your success story: Introducing error categorization

By Todd Gladfelter • 4 min read • Product

Mux Data's new error categorization helps teams focus on critical technical issues by separating business-related errors from playback failures.

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Published on July 9, 2024 (9 months ago)

How Mux fits into your AI video workflows

By Matthew and Adam • 6 min read • Product • AI

The best AI + Mux recipes for building automatic video translation and dubbing, chaptering, moderation, and summarization and tagging of videos.

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Published on June 27, 2024 (9 months ago)

AI-generated chapters for your videos with Mux Player

By Adam Jaggard • 6 min read • Product & Engineering • AI

Chaptering your video just got easier. Learn how to use auto-generated captions and AI to add chapters to your videos in Mux Player.

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Published on June 18, 2024 (9 months ago)

What is DRM?

By Phil and Victoria • 12 min read • Video education & Product • Stream security

Explore the basics of DRM (Digital Rights Management) and how it protects video content from piracy. Learn when to use DRM and the tradeoffs involved.

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Published on June 14, 2024 (9 months ago)

Patience overflow: a debugging tale old as time

By Mike Smith • 6 min read • Product & Engineering

Read about how we found and fixed a tricky SRT live streaming bug and the lessons we (re)learned about handling timestamp edge cases.

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