Ed Ropple

Sr. Community Engineer

A-little-bit-of-everything software developer and video producer on the DevEx team. The guy you can count on to ask "should we write this in TypeScript" all the time. Remarkably uncomfortable writing in the third person.

Published on May 18, 2022 (almost 2 years ago)

Using Mux on .NET and the JVM with mux-csharp and mux-java

By Ed Ropple • 2 min read • Product

Mux now supports .NET and the JVM as first-class citizens with mux-csharp and mux-java, available today!

An exceedingly cool zoom-in on the cube onto which we're rendering the Mux WebGL video demo.

Published on February 28, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Enter the third dimension -- and bring your video with you

By Ed Ropple • 6 min read • Video education

Come check out how you can map a video texture to a 3D surface in WebGL using three.js and react-three-fiber.

Published on September 9, 2021 (over 2 years ago)

Introducing Low-Latency Live Streaming

By Bonnie and Ed • 8 min read • Product

Mux makes low-latency live streaming easier to build. Introducing Mux Low-Latency Live Streaming, a fully featured API for delivering low-latency live streaming compatible with Apple’s LL-HLS.

Published on May 13, 2021 (almost 3 years ago)

An interview with Maestro: Orchestrating the future of interactive live events

By Lynnette and Ed • 1 min read • Customers

When 2020 pressed pause on live events creators had to get...creative. Maestro’s Ari Evans talks about developing an interactive streaming platform for the creator economy to stay connected with fans.

By Shaddack - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7654780

Published on March 15, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

In The Beginning There Was Static: A Brief History of Video, Pt. 1

By Ed Ropple • 16 min read • Video education

A discussion about seventy-five years of history in the video space, from around 1927 to 2003, up until the rise of H.264

Published on December 4, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Reconnect Windows and Clean Stream Exits

By Ed Ropple • 6 min read • Product

The Internet is not always the most reliable thing in the world, and live streaming inherits a lot of that. When running a live event, production teams often have to take into account the vagaries of w...

Published on December 2, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Virtual conferences are easy? lol ok. (part 1)

By Ed Ropple • 19 min read • Events

This is going to be the second blog post I've made with this observation, but: COVID is weird. And while it's not one of the biggest ways COVID has turned over our collective applecart, it has now been...

Published on November 2, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Zoom Like You Mean It, Pt. II: Audio Technique

By Ed Ropple • 17 min read • Video education

Hey, folks! Apologies for the delay in getting this out; turns out Demuxed took a tiny bit of work to pull off! Thank you, of course, to our team--would you call them our fantastic team, Phil?--working...

Ed's "I am a software developer and also a video producer" desk setup. It has never been orderly, not once.

Published on October 13, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Zoom Like You Mean It, Pt. I: Audio Gear

By Ed Ropple • 18 min read • Video education

Breaking news: working during COVID has been weird. For folks like yours truly who are holding down an office job, this means a lot of time in the teleconference mines. On one hand, some people (hi) l...