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

@mux-elements are getting a new (old) home on npm: @mux!

Christian Pillsbury
By Christian Pillsbury8 min readEngineering

All of our Mux Elements are moving from @mux-elements to @mux on npm. In this post, we explain why and introduce some steps we took and tools we built to help with your migration.

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Published on July 11, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

11 tips for building a SaaS partnerships program from scratch

Eric Elia
By Eric Elia8 min readCompany

You know what I want....or maybe you don't - The Thamesmen We're a year in on the official rollout of our Partnerships program at Mux — a good time to reflect back on what we’ve learned so far. Over t...

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Published on July 11, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Live captions are great. Auto-Generated Live Captions are better. [Crowd cheers even louder]

Asiya Gorelik
By Asiya Gorelik4 min readProduct

We have closed captions for on-demand videos. We have support for third-party captions for live video. Now, we’re taking it one step further with Auto-Generated Live Captions — making it easier than ev...

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

Building a culture of accessibility starts at the foundation

Lia Seth
By Lia Seth8 min readCompany

When I joined Mux as a new hire, I was immediately taken with the level of accessibility I encountered from day one: Closed captioning and ASL interpreters at all company meetings! A shared understandi...

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Published on June 30, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

A peek behind the curtains: how Mux produced and streamed its TMI customer conference

Jared Smith
Garrett Graves
By Jared and Garrett10 min readEvents

On May 24th of this year, we held our first customer conference — The Mux Informational, or TMI. Many of those who joined us online have asked how we produced and streamed such an amazing conference. T...

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Published on June 23, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Tired of virtual events? Us too. Let's meet up in real life at AWS Summit New York.

Natalie Gilbert
By Natalie Gilbert1 min readEvents

Come chat with us at the AWS Summit in New York, July 12th.

Published on June 17, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Mux Player: TMI and Beyond

Meg Salisbury
By Meg Salisbury10 min readProduct & Events

Let’s get right to it, shall we? That cat is definitely out of the bag. Among the many product announcements we made at The Mux Informational, perhaps my favorite (and I freely admit bias) was the int...

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Published on June 13, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)

Staying up to date and organized with our Postman collection of API requests

Thuy Doan
By Thuy Doan2 min readEngineering

Mux users can now easily interact with our API via our officially supported Postman collection. Once forked, your collection stays up to date with Mux's API changes.

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Published on May 26, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)

TMI 2022: Behind the scenes of our first customer conference

Dave Kiss
Thuy Doan
By Dave and Thuy12 min readEvents

We did the conference thing and revealed a lot of juicy product secrets live - no really. Some of those secrets are ones you have been eagerly waiting for. We recap it all in case you missed it.

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Published on May 18, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)

Saving video playback progress in your application

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss5 min readEngineering

In this article, you'll learn how to keep track of video playback progress by building recallable video playback into your application.