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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.

90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality

Published on October 30, 2018 (about 7 years ago)

90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff14 min readVideo news

(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...

Video Access Log Processing with Apache Flink

Published on October 24, 2018 (about 7 years ago)

Video Access Log Processing with Apache Flink

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder9 min readEngineering

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.

Real-time dashboards powered by Elixir

Published on October 8, 2018 (over 7 years ago)

Real-time dashboards powered by Elixir

Jacqui Manzi
By Jacqui Manzi14 min readEngineering

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 (over 7 years ago)

How Our New Mux Data Scoring Works

Ben Dodson
By Ben Dodson7 min readProduct

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...

Changes to the Mux Viewer Experience Score

Published on October 1, 2018 (over 7 years ago)

Changes to the Mux Viewer Experience Score

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl9 min readProduct

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...

Introducing our Live Streaming API

Published on September 10, 2018 (over 7 years ago)

Introducing our Live Streaming API

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich5 min readProduct

If you’ve been trying to build live streaming into your application—whether it’s “Twitch for X”, online classrooms, a news & sports broadcasting platform, or something the world’s never seen before—you...

“What is Mux Video?” and nine other questions, answered

Published on August 20, 2018 (over 7 years ago)

“What is Mux Video?” and nine other questions, answered

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl5 min readProduct

When you’re a startup, one of the most common questions you have to answer is: “What exactly do you do?” We’re answering this question all the time - on our website, on customer calls, at conferences. ...

Instant GIFs! For animated video thumbnails and...whatever

Published on August 16, 2018 (over 7 years ago)

Instant GIFs! For animated video thumbnails and...whatever

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure4 min readProduct

Our nifty new feature can instantly create a GIF from video. Just GET a URL and you can create a 5-10 second animated GIF from any part of a video.

Published on August 14, 2018 (over 7 years ago)

Per-title encoding @ Scale

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure17 min readVideo news

The venerable Nick Chadwick spoke at Facebook's Video @Scale about Mux's approach to per-title encoding using machine learning. If you missed @ Scale, here's a recording of the talk along with a transc...

Published on July 26, 2018 (over 7 years ago)

ICML 2018: Trip Report

Ben Dodson
By Ben Dodson6 min readEvents

Mux just returned from an exciting week at the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). This was our first year attending, and it was great to spend an immersive week in talks and work...