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.

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

Published on January 27, 2026 (2 days ago)

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

By Steve Heffernan • 5 min read • Product • Video.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.

Published on January 21, 2026 (8 days ago)

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

By Steve Heffernan • 6 min read • Product • Video.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.

Published on January 15, 2026 (14 days ago)

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

By Rahim Alwer • 12 min read • Product • Video.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.

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

Published on December 18, 2025 (about 1 month ago)

Introducing Usage Reports for Mux Video

By Ashley Cutler • 2 min read • Product

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

A toolkit icon next to a list of video/AI features, including getSummaryAndTags, generateChapters, and more.

Published on December 16, 2025 (about 1 month ago)

Video + AI shouldn't be hard, so we built @mux/ai

By Phil Cluff • 11 min read • Product • AI

Announcing @mux/ai: open-source SDK for AI video features. Seven workflows from moderation to dubbing with built-in evals. Just npm i @mux/ai, and ship.

Growing flowers with a play button in the middle

Published on December 3, 2025 (about 2 months ago)

How Mux makes scaling video infrastructure predictable and affordable

By Greg Reynolds • 5 min read • Product • Pricing

Mux's Scale plan offers $1,000 in usage credits for $500/month with no annual commitment, making video infrastructure predictable and affordable as you grow.

Published on December 2, 2025 (about 2 months ago)

Build a generative-video app with fal.ai and Mux

By Joshua Alphonse • 5 min read • Product

Build fast generative video apps with fal.ai and Mux. Generate AI videos in one API call and stream instantly with <MuxPlayer />, no pipeline required.