The Mux Blog
We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.
Published on January 18, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Using the Data API to create custom visualizations
Mux Data tracks key insights about your videos. Learn how to make graphs using data from the Mux Data API and present these insights in a React application.
Published on January 13, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Why video is awesome
I'll admit it: I'm a video nerd. I’ve worked on video for a long time, since I first hacked together a Ruby library that wrapped ffmpeg into a basic transcoder, 12 (!) years ago. RIP, rvideo. Of cour...
Published on January 11, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
A Beginner's Guide to Video File Formats: MP4s
One of my first projects as an engineer at Mux was to add a bit of validation logic to stream.new to block uploads of videos with extremely long durations (1+ hours). stream.new is a simple web applica...
Published on January 5, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Go live reliably from mobile with our updated Android and iOS examples
We’ve updated our RTMP streaming examples for iOS & Android for better performance, features, & Mux live streaming support.
Published on December 21, 2020 (about 4 years ago)
Mux in 2020: a (very strange) year-end review
I know it’s a cliche, but: wow, what a year. "Hope you're staying positive and testing negative," as we've all written in about 75,000 emails. A lot happened in 2020 at Mux. Here are some highlights. ...
Published on December 18, 2020 (about 4 years ago)
Subtitles by DEFAULT
Mux now supports setting the DEFAULT flag so you can enable captions on autoplaying video that is muted.
Published on December 17, 2020 (about 4 years ago)
Program Date Time: Open Beta Launch!
Updated 8/5/21: This feature is now Generally Available and enabled by default! 🎉 Check out our guide for details. Have you ever wondered how you can synchronize video playback with other components o...
Published on December 16, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Kafka Connect: The Magic Behind Mux Data Realtime Exports
Kafka Connect is a powerful tool for moving data in and out of Apache Kafka clusters. Learn how Mux uses Kafka Connect to power real-time exports, as well as lessons we've developed along the way.
Published on December 8, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Live streaming with React Native
So... You've decided to introduce mobile live streaming to your React Native app. This is wonderful and if you are using Mux this is especially great because getting set up and running is extremely...
Published on December 4, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Reconnect Windows and Clean Stream Exits
The Internet is not always the most reliable thing in the world, and live streaming inherits a lot of that. When running a live event, production teams often have to take into account the vagaries of w...