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We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

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Refrigerator with storage coming out of the freezer on a blue background

Published on January 17, 2024 (2 months ago)

Introducing our coolest pricing lever yet: Automatic Cold Storage

Meg Salisbury
By Meg Salisbury5 min readProduct

Introducing Automatic Cold Storage beta. Our newest pricing lever for assets that haven't been accessed for 30 days or more.

A partnership design featuring the Mux and Shotstack logos

Published on January 2, 2024 (3 months ago)

Render video templates on demand with Shotstack and Mux

Jeff Shillito
Eric Elia
By Jeff and Eric10 min readEngineering

Learn how to build complete video workflows and combine uploads and edits, fully branded, inside an app or product.

On a black background is a chart in purple that's moving up, to the right. Above the chart it reads total and average. To the left there's a list of Ad Metrics. Ad impressions at 8.5M, Ad attempts, Ad breaks, Ad errors

Published on December 11, 2023 (4 months ago)

Beyond content: the crucial metrics for successful ad-supported streaming

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons6 min readProduct

New Ad Metrics are now in beta for Mux Data. Monitor ad performance and delivery and how they impact your viewers' QoE.

Landscape mobile phone with full screen video player & centered play button

Published on December 6, 2023 (4 months ago)

The native mobile players you already use, with a sprinkle of Mux

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri4 min readProduct

Now in beta: Mux Player SDKs for iOS and Android. Start using it today.

An illustration depicting the Rust logo connected to a web browser and a mobile phone with the Apple logo, Android logo, and globe icon all on screen.. Rust seems to be powering all platforms. Neat!

Published on December 5, 2023 (4 months ago)

Practical Client-side Rust for Android, iOS, and Web

Emily Dixon
By Emily Dixon12 min readEngineering

Can you use Rust to write your CPU-intensive code once and ship it everywhere — iOS, Android, and the web? Follow along to find out.

A bar depicting the range of video latency with standard latency on the left at >20 seconds and low latency on the right with as low as 5 seconds. The words "latency decreases" with an arrow to the right are below the bar.

Published on November 30, 2023 (4 months ago)

Let’s talk video… [wait for it]... latency

Lamia Chlala
By Lamia Chlala6 min readProduct

We’re excited to announce the general availability of two key latency features: Live Stream Latency monitoring metric and low-latency live streaming.

The image is a graphic design with a browser window showing a concert scene on the left and a screen with "NEXT.js" on the right, connected by a green line, against an orange background.

Published on November 27, 2023 (4 months ago)

How to add a background video in Next.js

Adam Jaggard
By Adam Jaggard4 min readEngineering

Learn how to add a responsive background video to a landing page using Next.js and Mux in this step-by-step tutorial. Grab the code and start building

An illustration of an area map appearing in a video player window

Published on November 10, 2023 (5 months ago)

Track video playback progress and display a video heatmap with React

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss6 min readEngineering

In this article, we’ll go over one way you can set up viewer playback tracking and generate a video heatmap to display in a React app.

An illustration depicting the 2Coders and Mux partnership for the new Mux WordPress plugin by 2Coders

Published on November 1, 2023 (5 months ago)

Mux Video WordPress plugin by 2Coders: integrate your Mux videos with your CMS

Dave Kiss
Marija Nikolova
By Dave and Marija4 min readPartnerships

We've partnered with 2Coders to bring a third-party Mux Video Plugin to the WordPress ecosystem. Read up on the new WordPress video plugin here.

A video player showing a woman walking towards the bay bridge in San Francisco, the quality selector only shows 2 op

Published on October 30, 2023 (5 months ago)

More tools to control playback behavior: min_resolution & rendition_order

Phil Cluff
Wanda Chiu
By Phil and Wanda6 min readProduct

Mux Video now supports 2 new playback modifiers. min_resolution to limit the renditions available. rendition_order to set the order renditions appear.