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Building your own video platform: Personal CMS using Airtable and ZEIT Now

Published on April 16, 2019 (almost 5 years ago)

Building your own video platform: Personal CMS using Airtable and ZEIT Now

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure7 min readVideo education

With ZEIT’s Now, we can easily build applications that interact with our Airtable database's API. We can wire them all together and build our own video CMS.

Build better video in 4 simple steps

Published on January 31, 2019 (about 5 years ago)

Build better video in 4 simple steps

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl6 min readVideo education

Video is hard because software is difficult at scale, and video reaches scale much more quickly than other software. When facing hard problems, it's helpful to have a framework that turns hard problems...

Guide to Mobile Video Streaming with HLS

Published on July 20, 2018 (over 5 years ago)

Guide to Mobile Video Streaming with HLS

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl7 min readVideo education

HTTP Live Streaming, also known as HLS, is the most common format used today for streaming video. If you're building a video streaming application today, you should probably use HLS. Apple created the ...

Published on April 25, 2018 (almost 6 years ago)

Better Video Quality through Deep Learning

Ben Dodson
By Ben Dodson7 min readVideo education

When people watch videos online, their video quality is mostly dependent on their internet connection. Faster internet means better video. This is great for people with consistent high-speed connection...

Instant Per-Title Encoding

Published on April 17, 2018 (almost 6 years ago)

Instant Per-Title Encoding

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl11 min readVideo education

Updated 8/4/21: We hit pause on audience-adaptive and per-title encoding. Read the details on why after the section break below. "How did you decide on your bitrate ladder?" We've asked this question...

An API to Video: Why Abstraction Matters

Published on February 21, 2018 (about 6 years ago)

An API to Video: Why Abstraction Matters

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl4 min readVideo education

This is the third in a series of blog posts about Mux Video. The first, Video is Too Hard, outlined the problem. The second, Announcing Mux Video, announced the new product. Abstractions are important...

Published on February 2, 2018 (about 6 years ago)

[Webinar]: The five Encoding mistakes everyone makes

Vasudha Sridharan
By Vasudha Sridharan1 min readVideo education

Online video is growing exponentially. A recently published study indicates that by 2021, 82% of all consumer internet traffic will be video. In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg signaled that “Video...

Video is too hard.

Published on November 10, 2017 (over 6 years ago)

Video is too hard.

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl2 min readVideo education

Online video is growing quickly, but it's still way too hard to stream video. Video has actually gotten harder to work with, not easier, over the last seven years. It takes a video expert to publish v...

Published on October 24, 2017 (over 6 years ago)

Captions on the web and FCC compliance

Nicholas Chadwick
By Nicholas Chadwick7 min readVideo education

Here at Mux, we’re always trying to make sure we build products that make our customers better able to understand their video, and how to improve it. One of the common questions we get is how folks can...

Are Your Ads Worth It? - How to Measure the Effect Your Preroll Ads Have on Viewer Experience

Published on June 16, 2017 (almost 7 years ago)

Are Your Ads Worth It? - How to Measure the Effect Your Preroll Ads Have on Viewer Experience

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford12 min readVideo education

Video advertising is a complicated technology, with different systems and components working together to decide which ad to deliver. Mux is here to help