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.

A bar depicting the range of video latency with standard latency on the left at >20 seconds and low latency on the right with as low as 5 seconds. The words "latency decreases" with an arrow to the right are below the bar.

Published on November 30, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Let’s talk video… [wait for it]... latency

By Lamia Chlala • 6 min read • Product

We’re excited to announce the general availability of two key latency features: Live Stream Latency monitoring metric and low-latency live streaming.

A video player showing a woman walking towards the bay bridge in San Francisco, the quality selector only shows 2 op

Published on October 30, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

More tools to control playback behavior: min_resolution & rendition_order

By Phil and Wanda • 6 min read • Product

Mux Video now supports 2 new playback modifiers. min_resolution to limit the renditions available. rendition_order to set the order renditions appear.

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 (over 1 year ago)

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

By Phil Cluff • 4 min read • Product • Pricing

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 (over 1 year ago)

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

By Dylan Jhaveri • 5 min read • Product

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 (over 1 year ago)

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

By Mike Smith • 4 min read • Product • AI

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 (over 1 year ago)

Video uploads with one line of code using Mux Uploader

By Dave Kiss • 5 min read • Product

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.

A Panasonic camcorder photographed in front of an early 2000s computer

Published on September 13, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

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

By Phil Cluff • 6 min read • Product

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 (over 1 year ago)

Parlez-vous anglais? Introducing multi-track audio

By Phil and Lamia • 4 min read • Product

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 (over 1 year ago)

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

By Dylan Jhaveri • 6 min read • Product

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 (almost 2 years ago)

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

By Yushu and Walker • 2 min read • Product

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

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