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Published on January 18, 2021 (about 4 years ago)

Using the Data API to create custom visualizations

Olivia Smith
By Olivia Smith10 min readEngineering

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

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl5 min readCompany

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...

MP4 vs. fMP4

Published on January 11, 2021 (about 4 years ago)

A Beginner's Guide to Video File Formats: MP4s

Philip Chang
By Philip Chang7 min readVideo education

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...

A photo of an Android phone live streaming a cactus.

Published on January 5, 2021 (about 4 years ago)

Go live reliably from mobile with our updated Android and iOS examples

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff5 min readProduct & Video education

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

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl3 min readCompany

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. ...

TV Remote with Lang and Subtitle Buttons

Published on December 18, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Subtitles by DEFAULT

Justin Greer
By Justin Greer2 min readProduct

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!

Ashok Lalwani
By Ashok Lalwani2 min readProduct

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...

Keyboard synthesizer with patch cables

Published on December 16, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Kafka Connect: The Magic Behind Mux Data Realtime Exports

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder12 min readEngineering

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.

Live streaming with React Native

Published on December 8, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Live streaming with React Native

Erik Peña
By Erik Peña5 min readEngineering

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

Ed Ropple
By Ed Ropple6 min readProduct

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...