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A selection of video frames from "Tears of Steel" showing subtitles in a variety of languages.

Published on January 17, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff • 17 min read • Video education

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!

Help Your Users be in 5 Places at Once: Your Guide to Simulcasting

Published on November 25, 2019 (almost 5 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri • 5 min read • Video education

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

Introducing HowVideo.works

Published on October 16, 2019 (about 5 years ago)

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich • 2 min read • Video education

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 To Video From Somebody Who Knows Nothing About Video

Published on September 26, 2019 (about 5 years ago)

Salar Khan
By Salar Khan • 4 min read • Video education

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

White Paper: 7 Tips to improve Live Streaming

Published on September 5, 2019 (about 5 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff • 21 min read • Video education

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 the ...

Phoenix LiveView: Build Twitch Without Writing JavaScript

Published on August 19, 2019 (about 5 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri • 4 min read • Video education

Demo application like Twitch with Phoenix LiveView for live streaming

Canvas: Do cool stuff with video in the browser

Published on July 25, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure • 7 min read • Video education

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.

Add video to your personal homepage with Mux PHP

Published on June 5, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff • 1 min read • Video education

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

Building your own video platform: Personal CMS using Airtable and ZEIT Now

Published on April 16, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure • 7 min read • Video education

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.

Build better video in 4 simple steps

Published on January 31, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl • 6 min read • Video education

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 problems...