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Published on December 20, 2022 (almost 2 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl5 min readCompany & Product

At our first-ever Mux company conference in May (shout out to the team behind The Mux Informational), I shared our long-term roadmap and vision. TL;DR: We exist to democratize video, which is such a f...

Published on December 5, 2022 (almost 2 years ago)

Gary Katsevman
By Gary Katsevman12 min readEngineering

I’ve seen a lot of captions over the years, and there’s one thing I can tell you with certainty: The way that custom controls and the HTML video element interact right now is inadequate, and I think th...

A screenshot of a real-time video call with many participants

Published on December 1, 2022 (almost 2 years ago)

Bobby Peck
By Bobby Peck6 min readEngineering

In this post, you'll discover ways that you can simulate a video call with many participants–without having to invite many participants at all!

Published on November 11, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

John Reigart
Eric Elia
Julia Garrahan
By John, Eric, and Julia16 min readPartnerships

It’s been exactly a year since we launched the Mux Partner Program. As we celebrate this anniversary, we want to take a look back at the impact this team and our ecosystem have had, both for Mux and fo...

An illustration of a robot standing amongst a forest of tall trees. The robot looks lost and confused. Don't worry, robot. We're here to help you.

Published on November 4, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss3 min readEngineering

At the risk of sounding like an old man, I can barely keep up with the JavaScript landscape. Between server components, islands architecture, incremental static regeneration, code optimization, and the...

A browser showing Mux Player loading

Published on November 1, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Darius Cepulis
By Darius Cepulis6 min readEngineering

With lazy-loading and a blurhash placeholder, we make the loading experience of Mux Player feel great in our Next.js app

Published on October 27, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

John Reigart
Erik Peña
By John and Erik5 min readPartnerships

Mux is proud to partner with Contentful, the API-first content platform, to help you create, manage, transcode, publish, and stream video content on any digital channel. We’ve been hard at work since o...

A product shot of black boots walking in the snow, with the text "New Arrival: Step toward adventure" and an "Explore" button

Published on October 26, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Eric Elia
By Eric Elia4 min readPartnerships

See how Aether brought their beautiful, cutting-edge storefront to life through Commerce-UI, alongside Mux partners Sanity, Shopify, and more.

A screenshot of a Next.js blog with Mux Player on it. Blogception.

Published on October 25, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Liam Lindner
By Liam Lindner4 min readEngineering

In this post, I'll show you the simple steps to embed a video in your Next.js blog or website by using the newest player package from Mux.

image of mux player

Published on October 19, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri13 min readEngineering

There have been a lot of hot takes and chatter flying around the interwebs about web components over the last few months. We read a lot of it, but the day-to-day 280-character hot takes on Twitter are ...