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Published on August 30, 2023 (8 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 (8 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 (11 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 (11 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 (12 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.

Published on May 3, 2023 (12 months ago)

Set your player’s OOTD!

Asiya Gorelik
By Asiya Gorelik2 min readProduct

Meg, Dylan, and Christian said it perfectly: When it comes to players, we don’t play games. At Mux, we’re not the “set it and forget it” kind of folks. We’re on a never-ending mission to make developer...

Published on April 27, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

How to transcode video 100x faster; or, a Gordian knot cut

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl6 min readProduct

Five years ago, in a blog post titled “The fastest video publishing in the multiverse,” I made the following claim: Mux Video is the first video streaming platform that doesn’t make users wait for tra...

Image of Mux's logo plus Akamai's logo

Published on April 4, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Get more from your player analytics and Akamai CDN logs with CMCD

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons16 min readProduct

Using CMCD with Mux Data and Akamai, tie your viewer’s quality of experience analytics together with CDN performance logs to achieve end-to-end visibility.

Published on March 30, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Create real-time video with native mobile SDKs

Paul Klein
By Paul Klein3 min readProduct

An overwhelming majority of video is created and consumed using smartphones. When was the last time you recorded a video with something other than a phone? And it isn’t just recording; all of our favor...

Published on March 3, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Maximize the real estate of your Real-Time broadcasts with the Crop layout

Phil Cluff
Wasee Malik
By Phil and Wasee2 min readEngineering & Product

When we announced Mux Real-Time Video, we incorporated broadcasting functionality to allow you to livestream your real-time sessions to larger audiences and to store them as on-demand videos for future...