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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 (over 2 years ago)

The modern shopping stack: how Commerce-UI marries video and ecommerce to drive results

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 (over 2 years ago)

Using Mux Player to Add Videos to my Next.js Blog

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 (over 2 years ago)

Slow is stable, stable is fast: building Mux Player on the “slow” platform of web components

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 ...

Published on October 14, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Adding interactive videos to your e-commerce website can help increase conversion rates by 20%

John Reigart
Harris Gani
By John and Harris11 min readPartnerships

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...

A stack of windows that showcase different approaches to streaming video implementations over the years

Published on October 10, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Gone in a Flash: a brief history of HTTP Adaptive Streaming

Christian Pillsbury
By Christian Pillsbury16 min readVideo education

HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is unquestionably and by orders of magnitude the dominant way of streaming media on the internet. Part history, part “hindsight is 20/20” revisionist history, and part tec...

A blurry photo of shelves holding many different VHS boxes

Published on October 4, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Building a Recommendation Engine with Amazon Personalize and Mux

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss9 min readPartnerships

Learn how to use Amazon Personalize along with Mux Data to build a professional recommendation engine for your video content.

Many many video frames rebuffering

Published on September 14, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

An HLS.js cautionary tale: QoE and video player memory

Scott Kellicker
By Scott Kellicker5 min readVideo education

Your viewers’ Quality of Experience (QoE) can be enhanced by understanding and optimizing memory in the client application

A mockup of custom Mux water bottles that were designed for CascadiaJS conference.

Published on September 13, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

400 water bottles and a video guestbook at CascadiaJS

Dave Kiss
Dylan Jhaveri
Darius Cepulis
Amin Amos
By Dave and 3 others6 min readEvents

Mux was proud to be a sponsor at CascadiaJS 2022 – here's a recap of our experience in the high desert.

Image of a person in workout clothes, on an exercise mat doing a crunch on a wood floor. Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash

Published on September 6, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Strengthen your video posture with lessons from the fitness industry

Lamia Chlala
By Lamia Chlala8 min readPartnerships

The video landscape is ever-changing. The fitness industry has shifted the way video is consumed and built, and these changes hold lessons for every industry.

An extra wide shot of a digital midi keyboard on a stand connected to a laptop on stage in a spotlight in a dark jazz club, digital art

Published on August 29, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Developer spotlight: interactive video music lessons with middy.com

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss8 min readCustomers

Interactive video is changing the way musicians learn how to get better at their craft. In this article, we highlight Middy, an online learning platform for teaching piano with online video.