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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.

Published on February 3, 2020 (over 6 years ago)

An interview with DatoCMS

Matthew McClure
Dylan Jhaveri
By Matthew and Dylan • 4 min read • Customers

See how DatoCMS uses Mux to power video for customers using their headless CMS product.

Illustration of open byte range behaviour in LL-HLS

Published on January 30, 2020 (over 6 years ago)

Low Latency HLS 2: Judgment Day

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff • 12 min read • Video news

Phil explains the latest changes in the Low Latency HLS specification from Apple.

I will find you and I will pause you

Published on January 23, 2020 (over 6 years ago)

<video autoplay> Considered Harmful

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri • 4 min read • Video education

The 'autoplay' attribute for HTML5 video is unreliable. In this post we explain its shortcomings and offer a better solution.

Ticker message

Published on January 21, 2020 (over 6 years ago)

No BART terminals were hacked in the making of this ad

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich • 4 min read • Company

In the process of creating a BART ad for the first time, we had some learnings that we thought we would share that could hopefully help someone else on their out-of-home ad buying journey.

A selection of video frames from "Tears of Steel" showing subtitles in a variety of languages.

Published on January 17, 2020 (over 6 years ago)

Subtitles, Captions, WebVTT, HLS, and those magic flags 🤔

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff • 17 min read • Video education

Join Phil on a journey exploring the modern technologies that underly captions and subtitles in online streaming, including HLS, WebVTT, and some magic flags you can set in your HLS manifest!

A partial caption is shown

Published on January 15, 2020 (over 6 years ago)

We now support subtitles and closed captions! [Crowd cheers]

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich • 3 min read • Product

When you’re streaming video over the Internet, there are many reasons to support subtitles and closed captions.

Product Recap 2019 (aka Mux Rundown)

Published on December 19, 2019 (almost 7 years ago)

Product Recap 2019 (aka Mux Rundown)

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich • 6 min read • Product

This year we released features that made it easier to get started with Mux, improved video quality, and answered our customers’ requests.

Announcing the Nunchee + Mux integration

Published on December 6, 2019 (almost 7 years ago)

Announcing the Nunchee + Mux integration

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich • 2 min read • Customers

Mux now brings live streaming to the leading OTT platform in Latin America. SmartboxTV’s Nunchee has added Mux Live Streaming into their platform.

The building blocks of connected fitness

Published on November 27, 2019 (almost 7 years ago)

The building blocks of connected fitness

Eric Elia
By Eric Elia • 4 min read • Company

Mux announces partnerships with coaching and music platforms to power the next generation of fitness products.

In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)

Published on November 25, 2019 (almost 7 years ago)

In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)

Matthew Szatmary
By Matthew Szatmary • 7 min read • Video news

Essentially a flick is just a really big number, specifically the number 705,600,000 and tries to solve a problem that nobody in digital media actually has.