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Published on June 27, 2024 (9 months ago)

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

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford6 min readVideo educationStream 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 (9 months ago)

AI-generated chapters for your videos with Mux Player

Adam Jaggard
By Adam Jaggard6 min readProduct & EngineeringAI

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 (9 months ago)

What is perceptual quality?

Mike Smith
By Mike Smith11 min readVideo educationVideo 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 (9 months ago)

What is DRM?

Phil Cluff
Victoria Nemiah
By Phil and Victoria12 min readVideo education & ProductStream 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.

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Published on June 14, 2024 (9 months ago)

Patience overflow: a debugging tale old as time

Mike Smith
By Mike Smith6 min readProduct & Engineering

Read about how we found and fixed a tricky SRT live streaming bug and the lessons we (re)learned about handling timestamp edge cases.

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Published on May 31, 2024 (9 months ago)

How to build video activity notifications in Next.js

Jeff Everhart
Dave Kiss
By Jeff and Dave9 min readEngineering

This post explores how you can use Mux and Knock to build out scaleable, thoughtful, and battle-tested notifications for your video apps.

Media Chrome Tailwind CSS audio player

Published on May 21, 2024 (10 months ago)

How to build a media player with Tailwind CSS and Web Components

Wesley Luyten
By Wesley Luyten9 min readEngineering

Tailwind CSS and Web Components are incredible tools for rapidly building in HTML. Let's see how, by building an audio player with Media Chrome.

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Published on May 20, 2024 (10 months ago)

Native players for native apps: Mux Player for Android and iOS is GA

Emily Dixon
By Emily Dixon4 min readProduct

Mux Player for iOS and Android is now GA. Use native mobile players in your applications with ease.

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Published on May 17, 2024 (10 months ago)

After the money’s gone, or, a deep dive into the total cost of ownership of video

James Isbell
By James Isbell11 min readVideo educationPricing

Explore the total cost of building an in-house video solution and how using Mux can save you ~50%.

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Published on May 17, 2024 (10 months ago)

Migrate your video files between video hosting services for free

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss6 min readEngineering

Migrate your video content between the world’s most trusted video providers with ease. Truckload helps you move your videos to your new video platform home.