Mux Blog - Video technology and more

Published on September 9, 2024 (2 days ago)

Mux Data now with long-ER term metrics

Introducing long-term storage for Mux Data, giving customers more flexibility to analyze video performance over time. Now in private beta.

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Published on September 6, 2024 (5 days ago)

Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript

By Dave Kiss • 9 min read • Engineering

What would it take to switch back to PHP after years of full-stack JavaScript? A boy and his AI-enabled IDE set off to find out.

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Published on September 6, 2024 (6 days ago)

AI chatbots are banned from our docs… for now

By Darius Cepulis • 7 min read • Engineering • AI

We can learn a lot about the current state of large language models by talking about why we chose not to use an AI chatbot on our documentation site.

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Published on September 4, 2024 (7 days ago)

What to talk with Mux about at IBC this year

By Jon Dahl • 2 min read • Events

The Mux team will be IBC 2024 in Amsterdam. Come chat with us about new features, Quality of Experience analytics, and premium video capabilities.

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Published on August 29, 2024 (13 days ago)

Not so basic anymore: More features for basic assets

By Phil Cluff • 5 min read • Product • Pricing

Yesterday Meg and I bid a tearful "arrivederci" to encoding tiers, and introduced their replacement — video quality levels — renaming baseline to basic, smart to plus, and adding the ability to set a d...

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Published on August 28, 2024 (14 days ago)

No one said naming was easy: Encoding tiers are now video quality levels

By Phil and Meg • 6 min read • Product • Video quality & Pricing

We’ve updated some of our naming conventions to make life even easier when selecting the right video quality for you.

Published on August 16, 2024 (26 days ago)

Here's everything we launched in Summer 2024

By Dave Kiss • 6 min read • Company

Each day this week, we shared some of the latest happenings here at Mux to help you build out professional and flexible video integrations into your apps.

Published on August 15, 2024 (27 days ago)

Level up your video experience with these AI example workflows

By Dylan Jhaveri • 5 min read • Engineering • AI

Examples of how to use Mux with AI tools like OpenAI and Claude3 to generate video chapters, translation and dubbing and summarization and tagging.

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Published on August 15, 2024 (27 days ago)

Build an AI-powered interactive video transcript with Mux Player CuePoints

By Darius Cepulis • 11 min read • Engineering • AI

Build an interactive transcript with Mux Player CuePoints and AI. Use AI for caption generation, Speaker diarization (identification), and text formatting.

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Published on August 13, 2024 (29 days ago)

How Video Tap streamlined video processing with Mux

By Dave and Staci • 17 min read • Customers

How Chris improved Video Tap's video processing speed by 80-90% with Mux. He also shares insights on AI app development and dev community marketing.

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