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 December 5, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
If you can read this, your browser captions are broken
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...
Published on December 1, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Developing real-time video without all the meetings
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
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...
Published on November 4, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Finding your way in the Jamstack forest
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...
Published on November 1, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
How we made Mux Player’s loading feel great
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
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...
Published on October 26, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
The modern shopping stack: how Commerce-UI marries video and ecommerce to drive results
See how Aether brought their beautiful, cutting-edge storefront to life through Commerce-UI, alongside Mux partners Sanity, Shopify, and more.
Published on October 25, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Using Mux Player to Add Videos to my Next.js Blog
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.
Published on October 19, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Slow is stable, stable is fast: building Mux Player on the “slow” platform of web components
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 ...
Published on October 14, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Adding interactive videos to your e-commerce website can help increase conversion rates by 20%
Why your brand needs videos outside of social platforms With the introduction of App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14.5, online brands now have a dramatically different relationship with social platfor...