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 June 5, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Video Startup Failure: New metric in the Mux Data Monitoring Dashboard
Mux Data can now calculate and show Video Startup Failures in the Monitoring Dashboard. Learn more about this metric in this post.
Published on June 1, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Media Chrome turns 1.0, huzzah!
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.
Published on May 18, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Stream with confidence: introducing live stream health stats
The live stream health stats API gives broadcasters greater insight into the performance of their live stream connection.
Published on May 3, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Set your player’s OOTD!
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 2 years ago)
How to transcode video 100x faster; or, a Gordian knot cut
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...
Published on April 4, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Get more from your player analytics and Akamai CDN logs with CMCD
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 3, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Maximize the real estate of your Real-Time broadcasts with the Crop layout
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...
Published on February 28, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Export live stream health data to your cloud infrastructure in no time
Many Mux customers build applications for their creators to stream live video. When a customer wants to understand a given live stream’s quality metrics, such as the audio and video bitrate and frames ...
Published on February 22, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Tie together your client and CDN logs using Mux Data with CMCD
I have young kids, so I spend a lot of time looking for missing toys. Often we end up finding those toys under a couch or between the bed and a wall. Searching all the nooks and crannies can be hard — ...
Published on February 15, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Our newest pricing lever: Resolution-based pricing for Mux Video
We lowered our pay-as-you-go pricing for video Encoding, Storage and Streaming at 720p or lower, giving you new ways to control your streaming costs!