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.
Published on April 27, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
How to transcode video 100x faster; or, a Gordian knot cut
Five years ago, in a blog post titled “The fastest video publishing in the multiverse,” I made the following claim: Mux Video is the first video streaming platform that doesn’t make users wait for tra...
Published on April 21, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Simulate a live stream of a video playlist with FFmpeg
Learn how to live stream your prerecorded content as if you were broadcasting live using Mux and FFmpeg.
Published on April 17, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Experiments with AI video content strategy
You’ve created some video content! High five! …Now comes the slog. Do you have all your tweets written? Is your companion blog post ready to go? Do you have your Open Graph image designed? What about ...
Published on April 13, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates and saved $750k
If you had asked me two years ago which sport a video startup needs to be most worried about, I would have said American football or basketball. My US-centric mind would never have considered that socc...
Published on April 11, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
How we got critical data everywhere, all at once
There’s a common anti-pattern in engineering orgs: one team comes up with a solution, then another team builds their own despite how similar the needs are. Rinse and repeat a few times. Eventually, you...
Published on April 6, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Up next: the lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue
How the Wolf of Wall Street almost killed the internet Back in the 1990s, a lot was going on. While we were learning to do the Macarena and struggling to keep our Tamagotchis alive, the internet was s...
Published on April 4, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Get more from your player analytics and Akamai CDN logs with CMCD
Using CMCD with Mux Data and Akamai, tie your viewer’s quality of experience analytics together with CDN performance logs to achieve end-to-end visibility.
Published on April 3, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Lessons learned building headless chrome as a service
Over the last year, our team has been working on a new kind of web experience. We've hinted at its development during brand events and conference talks, and we're finally ready to reveal it on the ma...
Published on March 22, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Manipulate live video using nothing but HTML, CSS, and JS
Cloud infrastructure has made streaming video content to millions of people easier than ever. However, developers looking to add live video creation into their products have limited choices. Live vide...
Published on March 8, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Edge Config: first line of defense against script kiddies
Vercel's Edge Config can come in handy in many different ways. See how we used it to cut down on the amount of spam we were dealing with from our forms.