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Guide to Mobile Video Streaming with HLS

Published on July 20, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl7 min readVideo education

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 the ...

Published on April 25, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Ben Dodson
By Ben Dodson7 min readVideo education

Updated 8/4/21: We hit pause on audience-adaptive and per-title encoding. Read more. When people watch videos online, their video quality is mostly dependent on their internet connection. Faster inter...

Instant Per-Title Encoding

Published on April 17, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl11 min readVideo education

Updated 8/4/21: We hit pause on audience-adaptive and per-title encoding. Read the details on why after the section break below. "How did you decide on your bitrate ladder?" We've asked this question...

An API to Video: Why Abstraction Matters

Published on February 21, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl4 min readVideo education

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 important...

Published on February 2, 2018 (almost 7 years ago)

Vasudha Sridharan
By Vasudha Sridharan1 min readVideo education

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 “Video...

Video is too hard.

Published on November 10, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl2 min readVideo education

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 v...

Published on October 24, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Nicholas Chadwick
By Nicholas Chadwick7 min readVideo education

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 can...

Are Your Ads Worth It? - How to Measure the Effect Your Preroll Ads Have on Viewer Experience

Published on June 16, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford12 min readVideo education

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

Maintaining Video Quality with Metrics

Published on March 24, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller9 min readVideo education

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

The four elements of video performance

Published on August 18, 2016 (about 8 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl4 min readVideo education

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 a...

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