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 January 18, 2022 (over 3 years ago)
Make a stats video your MoM would be proud of
In this article, you'll learn how to showcase your video stats by creating a dynamic animated video using Remotion and the Mux Data API.
Published on December 2, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)
Building the next generation of video players with Media Chrome
Here at Mux we've been quietly (or not so quietly) working on an open source project called Media Chrome. We're biased, of course, but as folks who have built a lot of players, we think we've really go...
Published on November 4, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)
Surface real-time view and unique viewer counts in your video player
Learn how to build a simple React app to surface a video's real-time view and unique viewer counts within the video player!
Published on September 7, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
5 years of Flink at Mux
Read how Mux has used Flink over the course of 5 years, lessons learned, and future improvements.
Published on August 18, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
Learn how to build an automated content moderation workflow with Mux Video and Hive.ai (including an open source example)
Published on July 14, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Processing CDN logs exactly-once with Kafka transactions
Learn how to use Kafka transactions to accurately process CDN logs at scale.
Published on June 7, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Mobile Safari HLS bug with short form looping videos
There appears to be a bug in Mobile Safari’s default HLS.js implementation on an iPhone when it comes to looping short-form videos.
Published on May 27, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Background audio handling with iOS AVPlayer
In this post, we walk through how to persist audio in your iOS app when the application goes into the background.
Published on April 20, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Be the MVP of your live stream: Lessons learned from monitoring the Big Game
Maybe you’re not planning an event with millions of concurrent viewers, but our takeaways from monitoring one of the biggest sporting events of the year are applicable to live streams of all sizes.
Published on April 12, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Simulacra and Network Virtualization: Does cloud load-balancing work for long-lived TCP streams?
While hunting for a pesky live streaming bug, we discovered that virtual load balancers don’t always simulate their physical counterparts the way you might expect.