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 April 17, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
Instant Per-Title Encoding
"How did you decide on your bitrate ladder?" We've asked this question to 50 video publishers over the last 6 months. With almost no exceptions, the answer has been: "I have no idea." "Some engineer...
Published on March 13, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
How we got a 3-letter domain on a startup budget
Are you starting a new business or rebranding, and wondering how to get a coveted short domain? Our story at Mux can help you negotiate a deal structure that works for you.
Published on March 13, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
Build vs. buy: patterns and antipatterns
Build or buy? This decision gets made dozens of times every year by engineering teams, small and large. It's an important decision, affecting roadmaps, productivity, team composition, and customer hap...
Published on March 6, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
The fastest video publishing in the multiverse
Video publishing speed is a usability problem. When a user hits the "upload" button, they don't want to have to wait a few minutes (or longer) to see their video play. But that's what happens almost an...
Published on February 21, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
An API to Video: Why Abstraction Matters
This is the third in a series of blog posts about Mux Video. The first, Video is Too Hard, outlined the problem. The second, Announcing Mux Video, announced the new product. Abstractions are important...
Published on February 2, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
[Webinar]: The five Encoding mistakes everyone makes
Online video is growing exponentially. A recently published study indicates that by 2021, 82% of all consumer internet traffic will be video. In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg signaled that “Video...
Published on January 12, 2018 (over 7 years ago)
How We Used Machine Learning to win at HQ Trivia
For the past three months, half of us at Mux have been obsessed with HQ Trivia, while the other half silently regretted their Android purchases. When that HQ push notification hits at 12, the iPhones s...
Published on December 22, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Using Percentiles To Identify Outliers and the Typical Experience
The most overused measurement is the arithmetic mean (average). In nearly all cases you're better served by using percentiles instead of averages.
Published on November 14, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Announcing Mux Video: a simple API to powerful video streaming
Online video is growing exponentially, but still it's too hard to stream video. Video is too hard (as we discussed last week). Every area of video infrastructure - encoding, playback, delivery, workfl...
Published on November 10, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Video is too hard.
Online video is growing quickly, but it's still way too hard to stream video. Video has actually gotten harder to work with, not easier, over the last seven years. It takes a video expert to publish v...