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Published on November 21, 2018 (about 6 years ago)

Video Analytics Series Part 1: Rebuffering

Ben Dodson
By Ben Dodson9 min readVideo news

Mux receives over a billion video views each month through Mux Data, and we recently spent some time looking at the most important metrics, such as rebuffering percentage, time to first frame, and vide...

Streaming video teardown: Twitch vs. Amazon Prime for Thursday Night Football

Published on November 15, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Streaming video teardown: Twitch vs. Amazon Prime for Thursday Night Football

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff23 min readVideo news

Growing up in England I’ll openly admit that American Football isn’t my first choice of sport, however, by anyone's standards, American Football is huge. Last year Amazon started live streaming Thursda...

MP4 Support Added. Unleash offline viewing!

Published on November 12, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

MP4 Support Added. Unleash offline viewing!

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich4 min readProduct

In this post, you’ll learn how to allow your viewers to download videos and watch videos offline by enabling MP4 support on your Mux assets.

Our Approach To Live

Published on November 6, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Our Approach To Live

Nicholas Chadwick
By Nicholas Chadwick5 min readProduct

What makes a great live streaming video API? This is a question Mux tackled when building our live streaming API earlier this year. We began by looking at some of the most common scenarios folks asked...

90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality

Published on October 30, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff14 min readVideo news

(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...

Video Access Log Processing with Apache Flink

Published on October 24, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Video Access Log Processing with Apache Flink

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder9 min readEngineering

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.

Real-time dashboards powered by Elixir

Published on October 8, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Real-time dashboards powered by Elixir

Jacqui Manzi
By Jacqui Manzi14 min readEngineering

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

Ben Dodson
By Ben Dodson7 min readProduct

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...

Changes to the Mux Viewer Experience Score

Published on October 1, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Changes to the Mux Viewer Experience Score

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl9 min readProduct

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...

Introducing our Live Streaming API

Published on September 10, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Introducing our Live Streaming API

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich5 min readProduct

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...