Changelog

Static Renditions API for creating MP4 and M4A renditions now available

A new Mux Video API for enabling MP4 and M4A static renditions is now available for all customers.

Feb 12, 2025

Regional Ingest URLs

Mux's global ingest URLs connect you to the closest ingest region automatically. These ingest URLs typically provide optimal performance, but you can also select a specific regional ingest URL.

January 2025

Jan 16, 2025

New Account Video

Mux is now available through the Vercel Marketplace

October 2024

Oct 30, 2024

New Improvement Video

Mux Video now supports a premium quality level

Mux Video now supports a third quality level: premium, which is optimized for premium media content, where the highest video quality is required including live sports, or studio movies.

August 2024

Aug 28, 2024

New Update Video Account

Encoding tiers are now video quality levels; organization admins can now set a default video quality level

Encoding tiers are now video quality levels; organization admins can now set a default video quality level. Baseline has been renamed to basic, and smart has been renamed to plus.

July 2024

Jul 11, 2024

Mux video now supports Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Mux Video now supports Digital Rights Management (DRM). DRM is an extra layer of security that blocks or limits the impact of screen recording, screen sharing, and downloading tools.

June 2024

Jun 13, 2024

New SDK Video

Mux Upload SDK for Swift is now GA

We're excited to announce that the Swift Upload SDK is now generally available! This release supports standardizing video to 3840p (4K) resolution, bug fixes, improved examples, and documentation.

Jun 12, 2024

Mux Upload SDK for Android is now GA

We're excited to announce that the Android Upload SDK is now generally available! This release supports standardizing video to 3840p (4K) resolution, bug fixes, improved examples, and documentation.

May 2024

May 8, 2024

Mux video can now generate instant clips of videos at no extra cost

Mux video can now generate clips of live streams and assets created from live streams instantly and at no extra cost.

April 2024

Apr 11, 2024

Improvement New Video

Playback restrictions now support filtering requests by the User-Agent header

Mux Video now supports playback restrictions which can filter requests by the User-Agent header. It is possible to filter both traffic with either no user agent, as well as known high-risk user agents

March 2024

Mar 14, 2024

Mux Video now supports receiving live streams over Secure Reliable Transport (SRT)

Mux Video now supports receiving live streams over the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol, which can increase the reliability of live streams being sent over imperfect networks.

February 2024

Feb 22, 2024

New Starter plan now available for Video customers

You can now sign up for our Starter plan, which is $10/mo for $100 of usage and includes access to all Mux products. No commitment, cancel anytime.

January 2024

Jan 17, 2024

Automatic Cold Storage is now available for Mux Video

Automatic Cold Storage is now available. Assets without MP4s enabled will automatically transition to Cold or Infrequent based on when they were last viewed, and will be less expensive to store.

October 2023

Oct 30, 2023

Mux Video now exposes more control over rendition availability and order at playback time

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

Oct 18, 2023

Mux Video now supports baseline assets with free video encoding

Mux Video now supports a new type of on-demand asset with free video encoding. Baseline assets are a cost-effective option for video applications that have simpler quality needs.

Oct 3, 2023

Mux Video now supports auto-generated captions for on-demand assets

Auto-generated captions can now be enabled on Mux Video Assets through the API at asset creation time. Additionally, a plain text transcript of the video is available.

September 2023

Sep 13, 2023

Mux Video assets now support 4K resolutions

Mux Video now supports ingesting, storing, and delivering videos at 4K resolutions (2160p), allowing customers to deliver higher quality video content to viewers.

August 2023

Aug 30, 2023

Mux Video assets now support multi-track audio

Mux Video now supports adding alternate audio tracks to a video asset. This can be used to allow users to pick between audio languages, to add director's commentary, or to add descriptive audio.

Aug 1, 2023

New Beta Video SDK

Mux Uploader iOS & Android public beta

Mux Uploader beta for iOS and Android for easily working with Mux Direct Uploads

June 2023

Jun 7, 2023

Improvement New Video

Create Thumbnails, Gifs, and Timeline Hover Previews with Storyboards for Assets and Live Streams right from the Dashboard

Create Thumbnails, Gifs, and Timeline Hover Previews with Storyboards for Assets and Live Streams right from the Dashboard.

May 2023

May 1, 2023

Updated Viewer Engagement Metrics in the Monitor tab and added Passthrough Data to Details tab for Assets and Live Streams

Assets and Live Streams have updated metrics in the Monitor tab and now show Passthrough Data in the Details tab.

March 2023

Mar 30, 2023

iOS and Android SDKs for Mux Real-Time Video released to General Availability

iOS and Android SDKs for Mux Real-Time Video (Spaces) have been released to General Availability. This 1.0.0 release of both SDKs includes new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

Mar 17, 2023

Improvement New Video SDK

Spaces Web SDK v1.2.0 Released

Version 1.2.0 of the Spaces Web SDK has been released. This version adds support for setting, updating, and retrieving participant display names.

Mar 8, 2023

Live Stream Health Stats API and Indicator is now in Public Beta

Mux Video provides an API for developers to get live stream input health easily built into application UIs.

January 2023

Jan 9, 2023

Improvement New SDK Video

Spaces Web SDK v1.1.0 Released

This update includes the ability to publish custom events, a function to create LocalTracks from a MediaStream, changes to the default subscriptions, and enforcement of published track limits.

December 2022

Dec 22, 2022

Mux Video now allows you to stream Live Stream Input Health data to your own infrastructure

Mux now allows you to create a streaming export for your Live Stream Input Health data which can be integrated with an Amazon Kinesis or Google Pub/Sub endpoint in your cloud account.

Dec 19, 2022

Webp support for storyboards, thumbnails, and GIFs

Mux now supports webp images for storyboards, thumbnails, and gifs. Webp is an image format that uses lossy and lossless image compression methods to reduce image size while maintaining quality.

November 2022

Nov 29, 2022

Mux Real-Time Video released to General Availability

Mux Real-Time Video has been released to General Availability. This update includes updated SDKs, multi-region support, user experience reporting, and additional improvements and bug fixes.

July 2022

Jul 21, 2022

Reconnect Window & slates support for Mux Video Live Streams now in Beta

Reconnect Window and slates are now supported for all modes of live streams.

Jul 14, 2022

Custom Domains for Mux Video now in Beta

Custom domains are now in beta so Mux Video customers can stream media from domains other than stream.mux.com and image.mux.com

Jul 7, 2022

Transcription vocabulary release

Use transcription vocabularies to improve the accuracy of auto-generated closed captions

Jul 7, 2022

Auto-generated live closed captions

Mux Live Stream now has an option for auto-generating closed captions.

April 2022

Apr 28, 2022

Mux-Csharp SDK v0.1.0

We've added version 0.1.0 of our mux-csharp SDK. This is the initial release of the Mux C# SDK and it reflects the current state of the Mux API.

Apr 21, 2022

New Improvement Video

New Video Getting Started Experience

If you are a new Mux Video user, you can enjoy an updated getting started experience. The new Assets and Live Streams pages make it easy to upload your first video.

March 2022

Mar 14, 2022

Set Maximum Duration for a Single Live Stream event

We’ve added the max_continuous_duration parameter to Live Streams. You can now set the maximum duration for recording a single live stream event lower than 12 hours.

February 2022

Feb 16, 2022

Live Stream Status filter added to List Live Streams API endpoint

We’ve added a new status filter to the List Live Streams API endpoint.

December 2021

Dec 20, 2021

Playback Restrictions with Referrer Validation useful for securing video playback

We’ve introduced Referrer Validation, a new method of Playback Restrictions to secure your videos.

Dec 17, 2021

PATCH method introduced for Assets & Live Streams API endpoints

We have introduced the PATCH method to several API endpoints for updating Assets and Live Streams.

Dec 2, 2021