Skip to content

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.

Search
Big Buck Bunny in Winamp

Published on January 6, 2023 (about 2 years ago)

Winamp player: now with web components

Dave Kiss
Wietse Hage
By Dave and Wietse11 min readEngineering

In this post, we break down how you can rebuild the classic Winamp player using modern web components with media-chrome.

Published on December 22, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

How LyveCom uses Mux to build the best-quality e-commerce video experience

Asiya Gorelik
By Asiya Gorelik2 min readCustomers

Video is essential for almost every industry. It’s been proven over and over again to help businesses engage with their audiences and drive growth. Our friends at LyveCom are a great example of what i...

Published on December 21, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Program, schedule, and stream high-quality live video with Prepr CMS; powered by Mux

John Reigart
Dana Cheragwandi
By John and Dana5 min readPartnerships

With this month’s release of Mux Partner Prepr's Live Stream, you can now easily set up, program, and stream high-quality live video to consumers of your multichannel apps and websites.

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

2022 retro: what we shipped and what’s next

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 (over 2 years ago)

If you can read this, your browser captions are broken

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 (over 2 years ago)

Developing real-time video without all the meetings

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 (over 2 years ago)

Partnerships anniversary: a look back

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 (over 2 years ago)

Finding your way in the Jamstack forest

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 (over 2 years ago)

How we made Mux Player’s loading feel great

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 (over 2 years ago)

Manage captions and get production-ready Mux Player code in the latest update to the Mux Contentful app

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...