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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.

Streams of data emanating from Mux Data, populating a data lake.

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

Do more with your video data — launching Streaming Exports in Mux Data.

Steven Lyons
John Riske
By Steven and John6 min readProduct

Announcing general availability of Streaming Exports in Mux Data. You can stream data of individual views as they complete!

An image containing the Mux Data logo and the Amazon Kinesis logo

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

Capture view data with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss8 min readPartnerships

Learn how to configure AWS Kinesis Data Streams account to process real-time view data from Mux viewing sessions

Mux Data logo plus Google Cloud Pub/Sub logo

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

Push view data to Google BigQuery with Pub/Sub

Thuy Doan
By Thuy Doan8 min readPartnerships

In this post, you’ll learn how to configure your Google Pub/Sub account to process real-time view data from Mux viewing sessions.

mux player

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

When it comes to players, we don't play games.

Meg Salisbury
Christian Pillsbury
By Meg and Christian3 min readProduct

You knew it was coming, folks (or at least, we were not shy about it)! Mux Player is officially in Public Beta, ready to play your videos for everyone, everywhere. We’ve spent the last seven months (m...