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 October 30, 2018 (about 6 years ago)
90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality
(and 4 other things we learned at Demuxed 2018) Last week was the annual Demuxed conference. Demuxed is a conference designed by, and for developers working with video. This year for the first time, i...
Published on October 24, 2018 (about 6 years ago)
Video Access Log Processing with Apache Flink
This is an overview of the stream-processing system built by Mux to handle large volumes of video-streaming logs with Apache Flink and Kafka.
Published on October 8, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Real-time dashboards powered by Elixir
Using Erlang’s OTP and Phoenix’s Channel / Presence to manage large real-time data sets across many channel topics Our real-time analytics product requires a scalable system with high availability a...
Published on October 3, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
How Our New Mux Data Scoring Works
We were recently excited to announce our new scoring update for Mux Data. Here is an in-depth look into how and why we decided to change our Viewer Experience Score for the better. Score... what is it...
Published on October 1, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Changes to the Mux Viewer Experience Score
One of our goals with Mux Data is to provide meaningful data about video performance at a quick glance, while also providing the ability to drill deep when needed. We created the Viewer Experience Sco...
Published on September 10, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Introducing our Live Streaming API
If you’ve been trying to build live streaming into your application—whether it’s “Twitch for X”, online classrooms, a news & sports broadcasting platform, or something the world’s never seen before—you...
Published on August 28, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Announcing our New Real-Time Streaming Dashboard
In the world of streaming video, real-time metrics are a necessity and can help you catch issues ranging from a little video stuttering to a full blown World-cup style meltdown. (Too soon?) While our ...
Published on August 20, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
“What is Mux Video?” and nine other questions, answered
When you’re a startup, one of the most common questions you have to answer is: “What exactly do you do?” We’re answering this question all the time - on our website, on customer calls, at conferences. ...
Published on August 16, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Instant GIFs! For animated video thumbnails and...whatever
Our nifty new feature can instantly create a GIF from video. Just GET a URL and you can create a 5-10 second animated GIF from any part of a video.
Published on August 14, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Per-title encoding @ Scale
The venerable Nick Chadwick spoke at Facebook's Video @Scale about Mux's approach to per-title encoding using machine learning. If you missed @ Scale, here's a recording of the talk along with a transc...