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Published on September 6, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript

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 (about 2 months 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.

Published on August 15, 2024 (2 months 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.

A player showing a video of two people talking. The people are labeled with their names, Matt and Nick. Below the player, a graphical representation of a transcript.

Published on August 15, 2024 (2 months 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 June 27, 2024 (4 months ago)

How Mux increased engineering velocity by 50%

By Ryan Grothouse • 11 min read • Company & Engineering

Dive into how 6-week planning cycles helped Mux increase engineering velocity and quickly ship major product upgrades like 4K, AI-generated captions, and more.

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Published on June 27, 2024 (4 months ago)

AI-generated chapters for your videos with Mux Player

By Adam Jaggard • 6 min read • Product & Engineering • AI

Chaptering your video just got easier. Learn how to use auto-generated captions and AI to add chapters to your videos in Mux Player.

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Published on June 14, 2024 (4 months ago)

Patience overflow: a debugging tale old as time

By Mike Smith • 6 min read • Product & Engineering

Read about how we found and fixed a tricky SRT live streaming bug and the lessons we (re)learned about handling timestamp edge cases.

Published on May 31, 2024 (5 months ago)

How to build video activity notifications in Next.js

By Jeff and Dave • 9 min read • Engineering

This post explores how you can use Mux and Knock to build out scaleable, thoughtful, and battle-tested notifications for your video apps.

Published on May 21, 2024 (5 months ago)

How to build a media player with Tailwind CSS and Web Components

By Wesley Luyten • 9 min read • Engineering

Tailwind CSS and Web Components are incredible tools for rapidly building in HTML. Let's see how, by building an audio player with Media Chrome.

Published on May 17, 2024 (5 months ago)

Migrate your video files between video hosting services for free

By Dave Kiss • 6 min read • Engineering

Migrate your video content between the world’s most trusted video providers with ease. Truckload helps you move your videos to your new video platform home.

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