Published on November 15, 2016 (about 8 years ago)
What's new: metric comparisons and global scores
We've shipped two new features at Mux over the last two weeks. The first is a tool to compare all metrics across two or more specific values. The second is a global benchmark that gives customers an id...
Published on November 9, 2016 (about 8 years ago)
Hardware encoding in containers
The Demuxed conference was recently kind enough to invite me speak about hardware video encoding in the cloud. Hardware vendors have been hard at work recently releasing updates to their encoding chips...
Published on November 8, 2016 (about 8 years ago)
WebRTC: From the ground up
I recently had the pleasure of giving a presentation at Demuxed - the conference for video engineers. Over the past several years, I've had a fair amount of experience with live video systems and the v...
Published on October 7, 2016 (about 8 years ago)
Six things you can do with Mux
Since starting Mux this year, we've talked with scores of video publishers. Almost everyone wants more data about their video streaming, and usually people have a couple of specific uses for this data ...
Published on September 21, 2016 (about 8 years ago)
Mux team reflections from IBC
At the beginning of last week, a few members of the Mux team traveled to Amsterdam for the annual IBC Conference, along with 50,000+ other attendees in the broadcasting industry. Below are some of our ...
Published on September 14, 2016 (about 8 years ago)
Buffering reduces video watch time by ~40%, according to research
According to our data, just one short buffering interruption leads to 39% less time spent watching video on a site.
Published on September 6, 2016 (about 8 years ago)
Demuxed 2016 is just around the corner
With Labor Day Weekend officially over, we find ourselves already in the throes of fall. Along with a chill in the air and the first staccato of fallen leaves on the ground (kidding, it's San Francisco...
Published on August 31, 2016 (about 8 years ago)
Why the creators of Zencoder and Video.js started Mux
For the last seven months, Mux has been hard at work on a performance analytics platform for online video publishers. Our product gives customers like PBS, IGN, and Funny or Die more information into t...
Published on August 24, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
Mux at IBC Amsterdam
Mux will be attending IBC Amsterdam September 9-12, 2016 at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre. Our founders will be available to meet and demo our recently launched platform. If your ...
Published on August 18, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
The four elements of video performance
How do you quantify the performance of a video stream? What metrics should you use? Long after Andy Grove stressed the importance of metrics for decision-making, software companies are becoming more a...