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On a yellow background, there's a button that reads "Free!" And two images depicting levers, one with "Encoding" set to the middle and "Resolution" set to max.

Published on October 18, 2023 (5 months ago)

Our next pricing lever: Baseline on-demand assets with free video encoding

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff4 min readProduct

Introducing the next pricing lever, baseline video assets. Baseline assets are a cost-effective alternative asset type for on-demand video, with free encoding.

Pink circle with white play button and hand hovering to push play

Published on October 4, 2023 (6 months ago)

Mux Player 2.0 for web & coming soon for iOS & Android

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri5 min readProduct

Mux Player 2.0 is here, bringing a cleaner design, new animations, and brand accent colors. Read up on this new release in this post.

image of a video file connected to a gear connoted to a the closed captions symbol

Published on October 3, 2023 (6 months ago)

Auto-generated captions for on-demand video have arrived [crowd roars with applause]

Mike Smith
By Mike Smith4 min readProduct

Auto-generated captions for on-demand videos, using OpenAI's Whisper model, are now available in beta. Easily add captions to your on-demand videos today.

A screenshot of a code editor with example code connected to a window rendering an example of a Mux Uploader user interface.

Published on September 26, 2023 (6 months ago)

Video uploads with one line of code using Mux Uploader

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss5 min readProduct

Learn about Mux Uploader, a new drop-in web component that gives your application the ability to upload video files to a Mux account in no time.

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Published on September 13, 2023 (7 months ago)

More pixels, fewer problems: Introducing 4K support for Mux Video

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff6 min readProduct

Mux Video now supports ingesting, storing, and delivering videos at 4K resolutions (2160p), allowing customers to deliver higher quality video content to viewers.

Image of player with 3 sound waves stacked and layered on top

Published on August 30, 2023 (7 months ago)

Parlez-vous anglais? Introducing multi-track audio

Phil Cluff
Lamia Chlala
By Phil and Lamia4 min readProduct

Mux now supports multi-track audio. Add alternate audio tracks to your on-demand video to let your viewers choose the experience that's best for them.

iPad and Android phone showing a video uploader UI

Published on August 21, 2023 (7 months ago)

Faster video processing and cost controls with Mux's Upload SDKs for iOS and Android

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri5 min readProduct

See how you can process videos faster and control costs with Mux's Uploader SDKs for iOS and Android

A laptop showing a video player with a degraded video playing. A red error icon is overlaid on top of the video.

Published on June 5, 2023 (10 months ago)

Video Startup Failure: New metric in the Mux Data Monitoring Dashboard

Yushu Cao
Walker Frankenberg
By Yushu and Walker2 min readProduct

Mux Data can now calculate and show Video Startup Failures in the Monitoring Dashboard. Learn more about this metric in this post.

Media Chrome 1.0

Published on June 1, 2023 (10 months ago)

Media Chrome turns 1.0, huzzah!

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan9 min readEngineering, Product, & Video news

Media Chrome, the set of web components for video and audio players is now version 1.0. While it was production ready before, now we promise it is.

An illustration of a laptop displaying a live video stream. The video shows a smiling woman applying lip gloss. The video is overlayed with a green bar chart and a green line chart showing growth.

Published on May 18, 2023 (11 months ago)

Stream with confidence: introducing live stream health stats

Philip Chang
Yushu Cao
By Philip and Yushu9 min readProduct

The live stream health stats API gives broadcasters greater insight into the performance of their live stream connection.