Published on July 20, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Guide to Mobile Video Streaming with HLS
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)
Better Video Quality through Deep Learning
Updated 8/4/21: We hit pause on audience-adaptive encoding. Read more. When people watch videos online, their video quality is mostly dependent on their internet connection. Faster internet means bett...
Published on April 17, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Instant Per-Title Encoding
"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...
Published on February 21, 2018 (almost 7 years ago)
An API to Video: Why Abstraction Matters
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)
[Webinar]: The five Encoding mistakes everyone makes
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...
Published on November 10, 2017 (about 7 years ago)
Video is too hard.
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)
Captions on the web and FCC compliance
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...
Published on June 16, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Are Your Ads Worth It? - How to Measure the Effect Your Preroll Ads Have on Viewer Experience
Video advertising is a complicated technology, with different systems and components working together to decide which ad to deliver. Mux is here to help
Published on March 24, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Maintaining Video Quality with Metrics
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
Published on August 18, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
The four elements of video performance
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...