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Is it recording yet? New Live Stream Webhook Events!

Published on April 1, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan3 min readProduct

We just added a few new events to Mux's Live Streams that let you build more helpful UIs for streamers and help debug issues when they happen. These include: CONNECTED (video.live_stream.connected) - ...

Did Sisvel just catch AOM with their patents down?

Published on March 28, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff8 min readVideo news

On Wednesday, Sisvel International S.A. announced two new patent pools, one for the VP9 video codec and one for the AV1 video codec. These new patent pools cover "consumer display devices" and "consume...

Streaming video on the internet without MPEG

Published on March 14, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff22 min readVideo news

Authors Notes: This article is based on a set of experiments I developed while investigating the feasibility of building a premium video experience using only royalty free video streaming technologies,...

How we improved Tensorflow Serving performance by over 70%

Published on February 26, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Masroor Hasan
By Masroor Hasan13 min readEngineering

In this blog, we’ll focus on techniques that improve latency by optimizing both the prediction server and client.

An adventure in OpenAPI V3 code generation

Published on February 20, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff26 min readEngineering

Learn about Mux's journey to support 10+ languages with SDKs, leveraging OpenAPI V3, and tackling code gen challenges.

Introducing Mux Python

Published on February 15, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff1 min readProduct

Today we’re introducing the first of several new SDKs we’ll be releasing over the coming months, Mux Python 🐍. Mux Python is a lightweight wrapper around Mux’s APIs, which make it easy to integrate Mu...

Multi-CDN support in Mux Video for improved performance and reliability

Published on February 12, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder10 min readEngineering

See why you should care about CDNs and how Mux Video automatically leverages multiple CDNs to deliver the best network performance and viewing experience.

Published on February 1, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure2 min readProduct

We spend a lot of time thinking about how we can make our products easy and fun to work with. Our public API is something we hope people find intuitive and reasonable, but the last thing you want to do...

Build better video in 4 simple steps

Published on January 31, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl6 min readVideo education

Video is hard because software is difficult at scale, and video reaches scale much more quickly than other software. When facing hard problems, it's helpful to have a framework that turns hard problems...

The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019

Published on January 23, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff21 min readVideo news

One of the hot topics of NAB, IBC, and Demuxed last year was “low latency” live video streaming. In this post we’ll examine the spectrum of different latencies that users experience, discuss the use ca...