The Mux Blog
We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.
Published on March 15, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
In The Beginning There Was Static: A Brief History of Video, Pt. 1
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 March 1, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
TV.gov: A 10-point plan for how to build a direct, two-way streaming community
As innovators in the streaming video industry, we’d like to see a robust video strategy that gives the new administration control not only of stories, but also of the distribution.
Published on February 24, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Monitoring the health of your live stream
What’s critical for any live stream is knowing that it’s working well. We’re happy to introduce our new Live Stream Input Health dashboard which shows the health of your live stream.
Published on February 8, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Scaling support @ Mux without getting too fishy
Every organization struggles with balancing user support quality and efficiency. The typical solution is to scale the team up, by hiring more people, and this is absolutely a necessary step… to an ext...
Published on January 18, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Using the Data API to create custom visualizations
Mux Data tracks key insights about your videos. Learn how to make graphs using data from the Mux Data API and present these insights in a React application.
Published on January 13, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Why video is awesome
I'll admit it: I'm a video nerd. I’ve worked on video for a long time, since I first hacked together a Ruby library that wrapped ffmpeg into a basic transcoder, 12 (!) years ago. RIP, rvideo. Of cour...
Published on January 11, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
A Beginner's Guide to Video File Formats: MP4s
One of my first projects as an engineer at Mux was to add a bit of validation logic to stream.new to block uploads of videos with extremely long durations (1+ hours). stream.new is a simple web applica...
Published on January 5, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Go live reliably from mobile with our updated Android and iOS examples
We’ve updated our RTMP streaming examples for iOS & Android for better performance, features, & Mux live streaming support.
Published on December 21, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Mux in 2020: a (very strange) year-end review
I know it’s a cliche, but: wow, what a year. "Hope you're staying positive and testing negative," as we've all written in about 75,000 emails. A lot happened in 2020 at Mux. Here are some highlights. ...
Published on December 18, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Subtitles by DEFAULT
Mux now supports setting the DEFAULT flag so you can enable captions on autoplaying video that is muted.