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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.

Help Your Users be in 5 Places at Once: Your Guide to Simulcasting

Published on November 25, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

Help Your Users be in 5 Places at Once: Your Guide to Simulcasting

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri5 min readVideo education

Your guide to Mux Simulcasting. Learn how to help your users broadcast to Twitch, Youtube, Facebook, Periscope and more over RTMP.

New Feature: Delivery Usage API (a.k.a. tracking usage for your next big idea)

Published on November 15, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

New Feature: Delivery Usage API (a.k.a. tracking usage for your next big idea)

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford5 min readProduct

Appease me while I tell you a story; maybe one of you can help me. One night a few weeks ago, I woke up with a great idea for the next huge app. I know, you’ve heard this story, but stick with me for ...

The New Video.js Themes

Published on November 14, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

The New Video.js Themes

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure5 min readVideo news

Explore four themes for Video.js, learn how to use them in your projects, and discover how you can build your own video.js themes.

Seeing double? Let your users simulcast (aka restream) to any social platform

Published on November 11, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

Seeing double? Let your users simulcast (aka restream) to any social platform

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan2 min readProduct

With the new Simulcast Targets feature, developers can now let their users publish live streams on social platforms.

Patterns and anti-patterns in company values

Published on November 6, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

Patterns and anti-patterns in company values

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl8 min readCompany

Company values can be exceedingly valuable, or they can be beyond worthless. You’ve probably rolled your eyes at company values at some point. Every time I see a list like “quality, integrity, and res...

Published on November 1, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

Mux Contributor Program

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri1 min readCompany

Mux officially has a contributor program! We have a lot of open source repos and we love accepting contributions from outside developers. One obvious place to contribute is our open sourced API SDKs f...

New Integration Announcement: Contentful

Published on October 17, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

New Integration Announcement: Contentful

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri2 min readProduct

Use Mux to add video in your Contentful CMS content. Transcode MP4 and playback HLS videos.

Introducing HowVideo.works

Published on October 16, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

Introducing HowVideo.works

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich2 min readVideo education

We’re excited to introduce HowVideo.works. It explains key concepts, and processes of modern online video plus, shows how all those pieces work together.

Using Netlify Functions to Create Mux Signing Tokens

Published on October 15, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

Using Netlify Functions to Create Mux Signing Tokens

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri7 min readEngineering

See how to use Netlify Functions with Mux signing keys to easily create secure signed URLs. Open source code included.

Published on October 8, 2019 (about 6 years ago)

Listen up! Mux now normalizes the volume of your audio.

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich2 min readProduct

What’s worse: When you hit play on a video and the audio BLASTS into your headphones? Or when the sound is just low enough you can almost, not quite, hear what’s going on? IMHO (In Mux’s humble opini...