Mux Blog - Video technology and more

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Published on July 9, 2024 (6 months ago)

When your failures become your success story: Introducing error categorization

By Todd Gladfelter • 4 min read • Product

Mux Data's new error categorization helps teams focus on critical technical issues by separating business-related errors from playback failures.

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Published on July 9, 2024 (6 months ago)

How Mux fits into your AI video workflows

By Matthew and Adam • 6 min read • Product • AI

The best AI + Mux recipes for building automatic video translation and dubbing, chaptering, moderation, and summarization and tagging of videos.

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Published on June 27, 2024 (6 months ago)

How Mux increased engineering velocity by 50%

By Ryan Grothouse • 11 min read • Company & Engineering

Dive into how 6-week planning cycles helped Mux increase engineering velocity and quickly ship major product upgrades like 4K, AI-generated captions, and more.

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Published on June 27, 2024 (6 months ago)

Being a provider in a pirate’s world, or: how to not get your service blocked by an entire country

By Justin Sanford • 6 min read • Video education • Stream security

From content creators to infrastructure providers, learn about the impact of piracy across the world of streaming video.

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Published on June 27, 2024 (6 months ago)

AI-generated chapters for your videos with Mux Player

By Adam Jaggard • 6 min read • Product & Engineering • AI

Chaptering your video just got easier. Learn how to use auto-generated captions and AI to add chapters to your videos in Mux Player.

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Published on June 21, 2024 (6 months ago)

What is perceptual quality?

By Mike Smith • 11 min read • Video education • Video quality

Learn about perceptual quality (PQ) in video and how metrics like PSNR, SSIM, and VMAF help you measure PQ.

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Published on June 18, 2024 (6 months ago)

What is DRM?

By Phil and Victoria • 12 min read • Video education & Product • Stream security

Explore the basics of DRM (Digital Rights Management) and how it protects video content from piracy. Learn when to use DRM and the tradeoffs involved.