Mux Blog - Video technology and more

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Published on December 11, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Beyond content: the crucial metrics for successful ad-supported streaming

By Steven Lyons • 6 min read • Product

New Ad Metrics are now in beta for Mux Data. Monitor ad performance and delivery and how they impact your viewers' QoE.

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Published on December 6, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

The native mobile players you already use, with a sprinkle of Mux

By Dylan Jhaveri • 4 min read • Product

Now in beta: Mux Player SDKs for iOS and Android. Start using it today.

Published on December 5, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Practical Client-side Rust for Android, iOS, and Web

By Emily Dixon • 12 min read • Engineering

Can you use Rust to write your CPU-intensive code once and ship it everywhere — iOS, Android, and the web? Follow along to find out.

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Published on November 30, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Let’s talk video… [wait for it]... latency

By Lamia Chlala • 6 min read • Product

We’re excited to announce the general availability of two key latency features: Live Stream Latency monitoring metric and low-latency live streaming.

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Published on November 27, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

How to add a background video in Next.js

By Adam Jaggard • 4 min read • Engineering

Learn how to add a responsive background video to a landing page using Next.js and Mux in this step-by-step tutorial. Grab the code and start building

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Published on November 10, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Track video playback progress and display a video heatmap with React

By Dave Kiss • 6 min read • Engineering

In this article, we’ll go over one way you can set up viewer playback tracking and generate a video heatmap to display in a React app.

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Published on November 1, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Mux Video WordPress plugin by 2Coders: integrate your Mux videos with your CMS

By Dave and Marija • 4 min read • Partnerships

We've partnered with 2Coders to bring a third-party Mux Video Plugin to the WordPress ecosystem. Read up on the new WordPress video plugin here.

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Published on October 30, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

More tools to control playback behavior: min_resolution & rendition_order

By Phil and Wanda • 6 min read • Product

Mux Video now supports 2 new playback modifiers. min_resolution to limit the renditions available. rendition_order to set the order renditions appear.

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Published on October 18, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Our next pricing lever: Baseline on-demand assets with free video encoding

By Phil Cluff • 4 min read • Product • Pricing

Introducing the next pricing lever, baseline video assets. Baseline assets are a cost-effective alternative asset type for on-demand video, with free encoding.

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