The Mux Blog

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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Published on August 30, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Parlez-vous anglais? Introducing multi-track audio

By Phil and Lamia • 4 min read • Product

Mux now supports multi-track audio. Add alternate audio tracks to your on-demand video to let your viewers choose the experience that's best for them.

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Published on August 29, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

How Mux Data monitored the largest livestream in history

By Sarah Brown • 6 min read • Company & Engineering

This past spring, we stepped up to the challenge of using Mux Data to monitor one of the largest live streaming events in history. Here's how we did it.

A graphic design of a group of thunderstorm clouds containing icons that depict the actions of a typical cloud encoding service.

Published on August 24, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Cloud encoding APIs are a dying breed: lessons learned from building three cloud video startups

By Steve Heffernan • 8 min read • Engineering

It's becoming increasingly clear that cloud encoding APIs are on their way out. Read our perspective on where cloud video encoding is headed.

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Published on August 21, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Faster video processing and cost controls with Mux's Upload SDKs for iOS and Android

By Dylan Jhaveri • 6 min read • Product

See how you can process videos faster and control costs with Mux's Uploader SDKs for iOS and Android

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Published on August 21, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Service workers are underrated, and building media proxies proves it

By Matthew McClure • 12 min read • Engineering

Service workers have so much potential. Let's explore building a media proxy as a service worker that can run in your browser or in the cloud.

A diagram depicting a client device interacting with a server via a communication line. A lightning bolt sits in between both the client and server.

Published on August 10, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Can React Server Actions finally fix forms?

By Darius Cepulis • 9 min read • Engineering

React Server Actions offer a way of simplifying posting data to the server by calling a simple function instead. But do they live up to the promise?

An illustration depicting a video player being assembled by a blue hand like a jigsaw puzzle. The last piece is being put into place, completing the video player visualization.

Published on August 1, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Approaches to building video into your app

By Edwin Mejia • 18 min read • Video education

Whether you’re a solo dev or you’re part of a team guided by executive leadership, here’s what you need to know about getting video working in your app.

An illustration of a browser window showing different page components highlighted in different colors, depicting that some components are client-rendered while others are server-rendered.

Published on July 19, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Everything I wish I knew before moving 50,000 lines of code to React Server Components

By Darius Cepulis • 20 min read • Engineering

Server Components run on the server instead of the client, giving you control over your bundle size and data fetching. Here’s everything we learned about them.

A graphic design that show a video player control bar. Hovering over the timeline are markers containing lightning bolts, depicting events occurring at specific points during the media playback.

Published on July 12, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Build an interactive video transcript with Mux Player CuePoints

By Christian Pillsbury • 10 min read • Engineering

Learn how you can associate interactive transcript metadata with your video playback to fire custom events as your video progresses.

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Published on July 6, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Scaling data processing with an embedded key-value store: insights from our migration to BadgerDB

By Scott Kidder • 13 min read • Engineering

Learn how Mux migrated from a shared, distributed Riak key-value (KV) store to the BadgerDB embedded KV store and the massive benefits it brought us.

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