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We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

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Published on August 29, 2024 (about 2 years ago)

Not so basic anymore: More features for basic assets

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff • 5 min read • Product • Pricing

Updated 07/17/25: 2K and 4K resolutions are now available for basic quality assets. Learn more Updated 10/31/24: MP4 support is now available for basic quality assets. Learn more Yesterday Meg and I ...

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Published on August 28, 2024 (about 2 years ago)

No one said naming was easy: Encoding tiers are now video quality levels

Phil Cluff
Meg Salisbury
By Phil and Meg • 6 min read • Product • Video quality & Pricing

We’ve updated some of our naming conventions to make life even easier when selecting the right video quality for you.

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Published on July 18, 2024 (about 2 years ago)

Save up to 60% on storage costs with Automatic Cold Storage

Lamia Chlala
By Lamia Chlala • 4 min read • Product • Pricing

Save up to 60% on storage for videos that haven’t been watched much lately. Automatic Cold Storage is now GA.

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Published on July 11, 2024 (over 2 years ago)

Introducing DRM: The latest tool in protecting your content on Mux

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff • 7 min read • Product • Stream security

DRM is now in beta for Mux Video. Learn about the newest tool in stream protection offered by Mux and how you can join the beta waitlist.

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Published on July 9, 2024 (over 2 years ago)

When your failures become your success story: Introducing error categorization

Todd Gladfelter
By Todd Gladfelter • 4 min read • Product

Mux Data's new error categorization helps teams focus on critical technical issues by separating business-related errors from playback failures.

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Published on July 9, 2024 (over 2 years ago)

How Mux fits into your AI video workflows

Matthew McClure
Adam Jaggard
By Matthew and Adam • 6 min read • Product • AI

The best AI + Mux recipes for building automatic video translation and dubbing, chaptering, moderation, and summarization and tagging of videos.

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Published on June 27, 2024 (over 2 years ago)

AI-generated chapters for your videos with Mux Player

Adam Jaggard
By Adam Jaggard • 6 min read • Product & Engineering • AI

Chaptering your video just got easier. Learn how to use auto-generated captions and AI to add chapters to your videos in Mux Player.

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Published on June 18, 2024 (over 2 years ago)

What is DRM?

Phil Cluff
Victoria Nemiah
By Phil and Victoria • 12 min read • Video education & Product • Stream security

Explore the basics of DRM (Digital Rights Management) and how it protects video content from piracy. Learn when to use DRM and the tradeoffs involved.

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Published on June 14, 2024 (over 2 years ago)

Patience overflow: a debugging tale old as time

Mike Smith
By Mike Smith • 6 min read • Product & Engineering

Read about how we found and fixed a tricky SRT live streaming bug and the lessons we (re)learned about handling timestamp edge cases.

On a blue screen, in the middle of the screen is a pink circle with a play button. Linked by lines coming off the play button are 2 black boxes with logos -- an Apple logo to the left and an Android logo to the right

Published on May 20, 2024 (over 2 years ago)

Native players for native apps: Mux Player for Android and iOS is GA

Emily Dixon
By Emily Dixon • 4 min read • Product

Mux Player for iOS and Android is now GA. Use native mobile players in your applications with ease.