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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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01/11/21
January 11, 2021
(8 days ago)
6 min read
A Beginner's Guide to Video File Formats: MP4s
by
Philip Chang
Video education
6 min read
One of my first projects as an engineer at Mux was to add a bit of validation logic to stream.new to block uploads of videos with extremely long durations (1+ hours). stream.new is a simple web appl ...
01/05/21
January 5, 2021
(14 days 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.
11/05/20
November 5, 2020
(2 months ago)
7 min read
Video Uploads with Mux
by
Erik Peña
Video education
7 min read
One of the more common questions we're asked is how to implement video uploads to Mux. While it'll seem straightforward once explained, there are some considerations that should be taken into accou ...
11/02/20
November 2, 2020
(3 months ago)
16 min read
Zoom Like You Mean It, Pt. II: Audio Technique
by
Ed Ropple
Video education
16 min read
Hey, folks! Apologies for the delay in getting this out; turns out Demuxed took a tiny bit of work to pull off! Thank you, of course, to our team-- would you call them our fantastic team, Phil? -- w ...
10/13/20
October 13, 2020
(3 months ago)
16 min read
Zoom Like You Mean It, Pt. I: Audio Gear
by
Ed Ropple
Video education
16 min read
Breaking news: working during COVID has been weird. For folks like yours truly who are holding down an office job, this means a lot of time in the teleconference mines. On one hand, some people (hi) ...
07/29/20
July 29, 2020
(6 months ago)
10 min read
Your browser and my browser see different colors
by
Matthew Szatmary
Video education
10 min read
Most people know some basics of color theory but what many do not realize is how complicated this becomes when we try to record and playback color accurately.
07/01/20
July 1, 2020
(7 months ago)
7 min read
Why You Should Use a CDN for Video
by
Scott Kidder
Video education
7 min read
Online video consumption is accelerating rapidly, and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have been instrumental in sustaining this growth.
06/22/20
June 22, 2020
(7 months ago)
8 min read
Traversing the First Mile: Considerations for Live Streaming Ingest
by
James Williams
Video education
8 min read
Regardless of how you choose to do it, getting your video into a platform requires consideration. But what should you consider to ingest live video well? Here’s our top 3 areas for consideration.
05/19/20
May 19, 2020
(8 months ago)
10 min read
6 Ways to Monetize Video
by
Matt Tosi
Video education
10 min read
After hundreds of conversations on how to best monetize video, we wrote a post that covers some of the top monetization strategies to build a profitable business around video.
05/07/20
May 7, 2020
(8 months ago)
7 min read
What is Video Observability?
by
Steven Lyons
Video education
7 min read
An observable system allows the operator to infer the functioning of a system with just knowledge of its outputs. “Video Observability” describes the monitoring of complex video streaming platforms.
04/15/20
April 15, 2020
(9 months ago)
8 min read
Intro guide: How to figure out which live streaming platform to use and why
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Video education
8 min read
Check out this guide if you're new to live streaming or just starting your research. We compare some of the most well-known live streaming platforms, including YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, and more.
03/27/20
March 27, 2020
(10 months ago)
8 min read
Guide to RTMP live streaming apps for iOS
by
Dylan Jhaveri
Video education
8 min read
This post a guide for going live from an iOS app to rtmp server. I tried 11 of the top apps including Wirecast Go, Broadcast Me, It's My Live, Nari Live, Larix Broadcaster
02/13/20
February 13, 2020
(a year ago)
9 min read
How to Build Interactive Live Video (remember HQ Trivia?)
by
Steve & Dylan
Video education
9 min read
Steve and Dylan discuss how you might go about building a live interactive video solution that is scalable.
01/23/20
January 23, 2020
(a year ago)
4 min read
<video autoplay> Considered Harmful
by
Dylan Jhaveri
Video education
4 min read
The 'autoplay' attribute for HTML5 video is unreliable. In this post we explain its shortcomings and offer a better solution.
01/17/20
January 17, 2020
(a year ago)
15 min read
Subtitles, Captions, WebVTT, HLS, and those magic flags 🤔
by
Phil Cluff
Video education
15 min read
Join Phil on a journey exploring the modern technologies that underly captions and subtitles in online streaming, including HLS, WebVTT, and some magic flags you can set in your HLS manifest!
11/25/19
November 25, 2019
(a year ago)
5 min read
Help Your Users be in 5 Places at Once: Your Guide to Simulcasting
by
Dylan Jhaveri
Video education
5 min read
Your guide to Mux Simulcasting. Learn how to help your users broadcast to Twitch, Youtube, Facebook, Periscope and more over RTMP.
10/16/19
October 16, 2019
(a year ago)
2 min read
Introducing HowVideo.works
by
Bonnie Pecevich
Video education
2 min read
We’re excited to introduce HowVideo.works. It explains key concepts, and processes of modern online video plus, shows how all those pieces work together.
09/26/19
September 26, 2019
(a year ago)
4 min read
A Quick Intro To Video From Somebody Who Knows Nothing About Video
by
Salar Khan
Video education
4 min read
A quick intro about working with video for the first time and figuring out how HLS streaming works.
09/05/19
September 5, 2019
(a year ago)
18 min read
White Paper: 7 Tips to improve Live Streaming
by
Phil Cluff
Video education
18 min read
Today alongside our friends at Touchstream, Datazoom , and Fastly , we’ve published a white paper packed full of tips to help you stream huge scale events successfully. Unfortunately, while writing ...
08/19/19
August 19, 2019
(a year ago)
4 min read
Phoenix LiveView: Build Twitch Without Writing JavaScript
by
Dylan Jhaveri
Video education
4 min read
Demo application like Twitch with Phoenix LiveView for live streaming
07/25/19
July 25, 2019
(a year ago)
7 min read
Canvas: Do cool stuff with video in the browser
by
Matthew McClure
Video education
7 min read
The `video` element is a thing of beauty except that beauty crumbles like dust through our fingers when you need to modify the content in any way.
06/05/19
June 5, 2019
(2 years ago)
2 min read
Add video to your personal homepage with Mux PHP
by
Phil Cluff
Video education
2 min read
Mux PHP is a lightweight wrapper around Mux’s APIs, which make it easy to integrate Mux-powered video experiences into your PHP apps.
04/16/19
April 16, 2019
(2 years ago)
7 min read
Building your own video platform: Personal CMS using Airtable and ZEIT Now
by
Matthew McClure
Video education
7 min read
With ZEIT’s Now, we can easily build applications that interact with our Airtable database's API. We can wire them all together and build our own video CMS.
01/31/19
January 31, 2019
(2 years ago)
6 min read
Build better video in 4 simple steps
by
Jon Dahl
Video education
6 min read
Video is hard because software is difficult at scale, and video reaches scale much more quickly than other software. When facing hard problems, it's helpful to have a framework that turns hard proble ...
07/20/18
July 20, 2018
(2 years ago)
6 min read
Guide to Mobile Video Streaming with HLS
by
Jon Dahl
Video education
6 min read
HTTP Live Streaming, also known as HLS, is the most common format used today for streaming video. If you're building a video streaming application today, you should probably use HLS. Apple created th ...
04/25/18
April 25, 2018
(3 years ago)
6 min read
Better Video Quality through Deep Learning
by
Ben Dodson
Video education
6 min read
When people watch videos online, their video quality is mostly dependent on their internet connection. Faster internet means better video. This is great for people with consistent high-speed connecti ...
04/17/18
April 17, 2018
(3 years ago)
8 min read
Instant Per-Title Encoding
by
Jon Dahl
Video education
8 min read
"How did you decide on your bitrate ladder?" We've asked this question to 50 video publishers over the last 6 months. With almost no exceptions, the answer has been: "I have no idea." "Some engineer ...
02/21/18
February 21, 2018
(3 years ago)
4 min read
An API to Video: Why Abstraction Matters
by
Jon Dahl
Video education
4 min read
This is the third in a series of blog posts about Mux Video. The first, Video is Too Hard, outlined the problem. The second, Announcing Mux Video , announced the new product. Abstractions are import ...
02/02/18
February 2, 2018
(3 years ago)
2 min read
[Webinar]: The five Encoding mistakes everyone makes
by
Vasudha Sridharan
Video education
2 min read
Online video is growing exponentially. A recently published study indicates that by 2021, 82% of all consumer internet traffic will be video. In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg signaled that “V ...
11/10/17
November 10, 2017
(3 years ago)
2 min read
Video is too hard.
by
Jon Dahl
Video education
2 min read
Online video is growing quickly, but it's still way too hard to stream video. Video has actually gotten harder to work with, not easier, over the last seven years. It takes a video expert to publish ...
10/24/17
October 24, 2017
(3 years ago)
6 min read
Captions on the web and FCC compliance
by
Nicholas Chadwick
Video education
6 min read
Here at Mux, we’re always trying to make sure we build products that make our customers better able to understand their video, and how to improve it. One of the common questions we get is how folks c ...
06/16/17
June 16, 2017
(4 years ago)
11 min read
Are Your Ads Worth It? - How to Measure the Effect Your Preroll Ads Have on Viewer Experience
by
Justin Sanford
Video education
11 min read
Video advertising is a complicated technology, with different systems and components working together to decide which ad to deliver. Mux is here to help
03/24/17
March 24, 2017
(4 years ago)
8 min read
Maintaining Video Quality with Metrics
by
Eliot Miller
Video education
8 min read
We're going to explore what Mux can do to alert you to poor video quality issues and how metrics can be used to optimize your video pipeline
08/18/16
August 18, 2016
(4 years ago)
4 min read
The four elements of video performance
by
Jon Dahl
Video education
4 min read
How do you quantify the performance of a video stream? What metrics should you use? Long after Andy Grove stressed the importance of metrics for decision-making, software companies are becoming more ...
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