Mux Blog - Video technology and more

Published on April 20, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Billing page improvements: transparency, clarity, and control

We’ve redesigned our billing page, with the goal of helping you to better understand your Mux usage and avoid any unexpected surprises.

Published on April 18, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Envoy as a service-to-service proxy

By David Mather • 10 min read • Engineering

This miniseries will talk about some of Mux's usage of Envoy networking proxy within our Kubernetes clusters.

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Published on April 5, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

The skater punk’s guide to MediaRecorder

By Dave Kiss • 11 min read • Engineering

In this post, you'll be introduced to the MediaRecorder API and learn how it's not so different from operating a video camera IRL.

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

How live is your stream? Measuring live latency at scale with Mux Data.

By Steven and John • 6 min read • Product

Announcing the beta for the Live Stream Latency metric!

Two phone illustrations side-by-side. The left one is pink and represents polling. The right one is green and represents webhooks. On the left under polling, the user has to ask for data each time. This is represented by the user chatting to someone and then getting a response back with data. On the right under webhooks, the user never has to ask for data and just gets it. This is represented by the user never appearing in the chat.

Published on March 24, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Verify direct uploads with Mux webhooks

By Thuy Doan • 6 min read • Engineering

A step-by-step guide on how to use Cloudflare's secure tunelling software to test webhooks in local development.

Published on March 15, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

So you want to build a real-time start up?

By Garrett Graves • 4 min read • Video education

We are in the Golden Age of Real-Time Video. There are multiple options for building a real-time video application, all with varying levels of complexity.

A glowing upload button with a cursor hand about to click it.

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

Direct Uploads with Mux and an Upload Button

By Thuy Doan • 10 min read • Engineering

Build an end-to-end direct upload button with Mux Video API, React on the frontend, and Express on the backend.

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Published on March 3, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Introducing the Mux Changelog

By Ashley Huynh • 9 min read • Product

We’re excited to announce that we’ve introduced a changelog as a way for you to keep track of changes to Mux’s products, when those changes are made, and how they might affect your user experience.

Published on March 1, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Announcing Mux for Startups

By Justin Forth • 3 min read • Company

We’ve got some awesome news. We’re giving startups access to tons of credits to get started using Mux for free. Startups are eligible for at least $500 in Mux Video credits. We also have specific credi...

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Published on February 28, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Enter the third dimension -- and bring your video with you

By Ed Ropple • 6 min read • Video education

Come check out how you can map a video texture to a 3D surface in WebGL using three.js and react-three-fiber.

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