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 August 10, 2026

The broadcast squeezeback, rebuilt with CSS Grid and WebVTT

By Dave Kiss • 11 min read • Engineering

Confession: I did not care much about football as recently as May. But by the time España lifted the trophy last month, I was watching matches I had no stake in, still unable to explain offside. Somew...

Published on August 3, 2026 (7 days ago)

How Mux chooses a CDN in 9.9ms

By Mark Franceschini • 10 min read • Engineering

CDN selection sounds simple: pick the best CDN for each viewer. But “best” is where it gets tricky. What does best even mean? Cheapest for the business? Fastest for the customer? Most reliable? Or, the...

Published on July 9, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

How Disciple modernized its video stack, lowered costs with Mux

By Stacy Fernández • 6 min read • Customers

How Disciple migrated over a million minutes of video to Mux with one engineer — and came out with lower costs, better analytics, and a faster-moving platform.

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Published on July 1, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

New Mux Robots workflows: Better captions, dubbed audio, and deeper insights

By Walker Frankenberg • 5 min read • Product • AI

Generate premium captions, translate audio, pick thumbnails, and turn engagement data into plain-language insight with Mux Robots.

Published on June 26, 2026 (about 2 months ago)

How Cutsio is making massive video libraries searchable

By Stacy Fernández • 6 min read • Customers

With Mux, Cutsio transformed from an audio-only tool into a full video platform.

Five video frames fanned out showing shot boundaries, each labeled with a startTime timestamp. Frames highlighted in blue are grouped together as a scene.

Published on June 25, 2026 (about 2 months ago)

Making it easier for agents to understand video: Introducing Find Scenes and Shots

By Victor Boutté • 5 min read • Product • AI

New in Mux Robots: Find Scenes turns video into structured scene data, powered by Shots, a new Mux Video primitive.

A dark-background chart showing two overlapping score lines — blue and orange — representing two shot detection algorithms. Two tall spikes where both lines converge are labeled "Shot change detected by both algorithms" with a double-headed arrow spanning between them. Three warning triangle icons mark false positives: an orange triangle above a spike detected only by the first algorithm, and two blue triangles above spikes detected only by the second algorithm.

Published on June 25, 2026 (about 2 months ago)

How Mux detects shot boundaries

By Grzegorz Gronkowski • 4 min read • Engineering & Product

Learn more about the algorithm behind Mux Video's newest primitive: Shots.

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Published on June 12, 2026 (about 2 months ago)

React Native needs a new video player

By Joshua Alphonse • 10 min read • Engineering

A new React Native video player with AI Video intelligence features from Mux Robots and the ability to collect video data with Mux Data.

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Published on June 3, 2026 (2 months ago)

Protect your prod environment: New rate limit controls

By Aaron Hedges • 3 min read • Product

New granular rate limit controls in Mux let you isolate dev from prod and prioritize the API calls that matter.

Illustrative graphic showing Mux Robots workflow nodes arranged in a connected diagram on a grid background. A blue tile in the upper left displays the word "Robots" in graffiti-style lettering. Connected nodes branch out across the grid, labeled with workflow action names: Ask, Find, Moderate, Summarize, Translate, and Generate (partially cropped). Nodes alternate between dark and light backgrounds, with blue connector dots linking them.

Published on June 2, 2026 (2 months ago)

Mux Robots Directives: less plumbing, more automation

By Adam, Walker, and Phil • 6 min read • Product • AI

Attach automated AI workflows to your Mux Video assets at creation — no webhooks or glue code required.

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