Published on January 23, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
One of the hot topics of NAB, IBC, and Demuxed last year was “low latency” live video streaming. In this post we’ll examine the spectrum of different latencies that users experience, discuss the use ca...
Published on November 21, 2018 (almost 6 years ago)
Video Analytics Series Part 1: Rebuffering
Mux receives over a billion video views each month through Mux Data, and we recently spent some time looking at the most important metrics, such as rebuffering percentage, time to first frame, and vide...
Published on November 15, 2018 (almost 6 years ago)
Streaming video teardown: Twitch vs. Amazon Prime for Thursday Night Football
Growing up in England I’ll openly admit that American Football isn’t my first choice of sport, however, by anyone's standards, American Football is huge. Last year Amazon started live streaming Thursda...
Published on October 30, 2018 (almost 6 years ago)
90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality
(and 4 other things we learned at Demuxed 2018) Last week was the annual Demuxed conference. Demuxed is a conference designed by, and for developers working with video. This year for the first time, i...
Published on August 14, 2018 (about 6 years ago)
Per-title encoding @ Scale
Updated 9/14/21: We hit pause on audience-adaptive and per-title encoding. Read the details on why in this post: Instant Per-Title Encoding. The venerable Nick Chadwick spoke at Facebook's Video @Sca...
Published on June 27, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Do Androids Watch Videos of Electric Sheep? How Bots React to Web Video
Philip K. Dick’s classic science-fiction story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” confronted mankind's need to differentiate living things and machines. While it’s currently easy for us to make thi...
Published on May 30, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
YouTube and the independent production studios of tomorrow
YouTube is where the production studios of tomorrow are honing their skills, but they aren’t going to stay there forever.
Published on May 8, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Rebuffering: The Most Frustrating and Frequent Problem for Video Consumers
Users said the most frustrating problem was when the video stalled or had to rebuffer. This is not surprising as buffering can cause a huge drop in viewers.
Published on May 2, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
ISPs and Publishers get the blame for video streaming problems
For Slow Load Times and Rebuffering consumers mostly blamed their ISP and their Wi-Fi, however the difference between these results is a very fine line.
Published on April 20, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
How do users feel about video streaming quality on their TVs?
We focused our survey on one type of content: video streamed to a television, using a service like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, or WatchESPN.