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Customer Conversations: IGN implements a new player with Mux

Published on April 23, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller8 min readCustomers

Zac Shenker is the senior video engineer who directed the implementation of the new IGN video player, a project that Mux helped bring to fruition.

How do users feel about video streaming quality on their TVs?

Published on April 20, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl3 min readVideo news

We focused our survey on one type of content: video streamed to a television, using a service like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, or WatchESPN.

Video is exploding and Mux raises a Series A

Published on April 18, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl6 min readCompany

Mux has raised a $9M Series A funding round from Accel. We’ve created the most accurate and actionable analytics platform for video performance.

Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup

Published on April 6, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan2 min readProductPricing

We started Mux because we saw what the most advanced video companies had built to monitor their viewer experience, and we wanted to bring it to everyone.

Recover from Rebuffering: Mux Metrics Explained

Published on March 30, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller7 min readProduct

Rebuffering can be the most frustrating part of online video for viewers. In this Article we're going to troubleshoot buffering issues with Mux metrics

Maintaining Video Quality with Metrics

Published on March 24, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller9 min readVideo education

We're going to explore what Mux can do to alert you to poor video quality issues and how metrics can be used to optimize your video pipeline

Mux at Flink Forward SF 2017

Published on March 21, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder0 min readEvents

Mux will be attending the Flink Forward SF conference on April 11, 2017 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. Scott Kidder from Mux will be speaking at Flink Forward on our Flink-powered real-time ano...

The Video Startup Time metric explained

Published on March 14, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller7 min readProduct

Although Video Startup Time sounds like a simple metric it is vital to understand, but elusive to measure. Here at Mux we know our metrics.

Using Control Streams to Manage Apache Flink Applications

Published on March 7, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder6 min readEngineering

Learn how Mux has used control streams to manage Apache Flink applications with zero-downtime.

Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink

Published on February 15, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder7 min readEngineering

Mux receives a continuous stream of video-view event data, every second of every day. Some of these views indicate errors during the delivery or playback of video. How can we detect error spikes in rea...