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We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

React and Mux Logos

Published on March 3, 2026 (1 day ago)

React is changing the game for streaming apps with the Activity component

Joshua Alphonse
By Joshua Alphonse8 min readEngineering

Learn how to use React 19.2's Activity component to prevent video playback from resetting or playing in the background when users hides and shows a video player.

A stack of video frames. A few frames in the middle of the stack appear to be glitched, as though corrupted.

Published on March 2, 2026 (2 days ago)

What we learned from a 22-Day storage bug (and how we fixed it)

Drew Rodman
Constantin Britcov
By Drew and Constantin16 min readEngineering

Between Jan 8 and Feb 4, a stack of small behaviors produced unexpected corrupted video segments. Here's exactly what went wrong and how we fixed it.

A robot illustration nested within a browser illustration. Composed on a blue background with thin black grid lines.

Published on January 28, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

Agentic screen recording in the browser

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss13 min readEngineering

Learn how you can use agent-browser and a custom MCP to direct agentic screen recordings with commentary and upload them to Mux for distributed playback.

Vidstack, Mux Player, Plyr, and Media Chrome building into Video.js

Published on January 27, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

Five players, one future: How we're building Video.js v10

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan5 min readProductVideo.js

Video.js v10 brings together the engineers behind Media Chrome, Plyr, Vidstack, and Mux Player to rebuild the web's most-used video player from scratch. Fifteen years of production insights from the web's most important player projects, now being combined into a single architecture.

Mux Player and VideoJS logos

Published on January 21, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

Mux Player: Five years of learning, now evolving into Video.js v10

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan6 min readProductVideo.js

Mux Player made video effortless by tightly coupling to Mux infrastructure — drop in a playback ID and thumbnails, captions, and security just worked. Five years of production insights are now shaping Video.js v10 to deliver the same simplicity with greater flexibility.

Videstack and Video.js logo

Published on January 15, 2026 (about 2 months ago)

6 Years Building Video Players. 9 Billion Requests. Starting Over.

Rahim Alwer
By Rahim Alwer12 min readProductVideo.js

Vidstack brought Radix-like composition and framework-native components to video players. Now its developer experience and API design principles are helping to shape Video.js v10.

Sendr logo on left, Mux logo on the right

Published on January 14, 2026 (about 2 months ago)

Record once, personalize to millions: Inside Sendr's video-first CRM

Stacy Fernández
By Stacy Fernández5 min readCustomers

With Mux handling video infrastructure, Sendr launched with 3,500 users in less than 3 months.

Green gak slimes its way down over the top of a white play icon layered above a blue background. What a mess!

Published on December 22, 2025 (2 months ago)

An extra-sloppy TikTok-style video feed in React Native

Dave Kiss
Joshua Alphonse
By Dave and Joshua8 min readEngineering

In this article, learn how to build an optimized video feed by creating an infinite-doom-scroll slop machine. Go on, we know you've been dreaming of it.

Mux Rewind 2025

Published on December 18, 2025 (3 months ago)

Mux Rewind 2025: Meeting developers where they are

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss13 min readCompany

From price cuts to AI tooling to Video.js v10, this year we made it easier to build with video wherever you are. Check out everything Mux launched in 2025.

On a purple background a pie chart in an orange box and the word usage on the side

Published on December 18, 2025 (3 months ago)

Introducing Usage Reports for Mux Video

Ashley Cutler
By Ashley Cutler2 min readProduct

New Usage Reports in the Mux Dashboard shows detailed breakdowns of your video usage across encoding, storage, and delivery over time.

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