We’re a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

A discussion about seventy-five years of history in the video space, from around 1927 to 2003, up until the rise of H.264

As innovators in the streaming video industry, we’d like to see a robust video strategy that gives the new administration control not only of stories, but also of the distribution.

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 ...

Phil announces updates to the Mux examples for live streaming from iOS and Android.

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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.

Online video consumption is accelerating rapidly, and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have been instrumental in sustaining this growth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Steve and Dylan discuss how you might go about building a live interactive video solution that is scalable.

The 'autoplay' attribute for HTML5 video is unreliable. In this post we explain its shortcomings and offer a better solution.

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!

Your guide to Mux Simulcasting. Learn how to help your users broadcast to Twitch, Youtube, Facebook, Periscope and more over RTMP.

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.

A quick intro about working with video for the first time and figuring out how HLS streaming works.

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 ...

Demo application like Twitch with Phoenix LiveView for live streaming

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.

Mux PHP is a lightweight wrapper around Mux’s APIs, which make it easy to integrate Mux-powered video experiences into your PHP apps.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Video advertising is a complicated technology, with different systems and components working together to decide which ad to deliver. Mux is here to help

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

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 ...