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 December 3, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
New Feature: Master Access lets you download the highest quality of a video
Right on the heels of our new MP4 Support feature, we bring you Master Access. While MP4 Support can allow users of your app to share a video more easily or watch the video offline, Master Access (also...
Published on November 21, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Video Analytics Series Part 1: Rebuffering
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...
Published on November 15, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Streaming video teardown: Twitch vs. Amazon Prime for Thursday Night Football
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...
Published on November 12, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
MP4 Support Added. Unleash offline viewing!
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.
Published on November 6, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Our Approach To Live
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...
Published on October 30, 2018 (over 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 (over 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 (almost 7 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 (almost 7 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...