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.

An image of a video player player with live in the upper left-hand corner. The player is broken up into 8 sections and around the player are 3 symbols: one of a globe, one representing a server stack, and one of a camera.

Published on April 16, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Which live stream ingest protocol is right for you?

By Bobby Peck • 10 min read • Video education

SRT? RTMP? The choice of live ingest protocol has a meaningful impact on all areas of your stream. Learn about modern protocols and which is right for you.

A Swiss Army knife with various video player symbols (and a banana?) floating near each tool

Published on April 15, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Why are video players so big? A trip down the rabbit hole of video playback engines

By Christian and Darius • 17 min read • Video education

A video playback engine enables more complex video use cases like adaptive bitrate streaming and DRM, but at the cost of bundle size. Is it worth it?

Graph representing the newest ad metrics to track ad playing time, failures, and startup time.

Published on April 12, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Don’t press skip: Introducing new ad QoE metrics

By Steven Lyons • 8 min read • Product

Improve revenue and retention with your streaming video by ensuring your ad Quality of Experience. Learn how the latest Mux Data ad metrics can help.

Published on April 10, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Keeping up with the Node-ish ecosystem

By Dylan Jhaveri • 9 min read • Engineering

How we updated our legacy Node SDK to work with new JS runtimes like Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Deno and Vercel Edge functions.

A mockup of an application where a thumbnail of a snowboarder is blurry, then replaced with a full-resolution image.

Published on March 28, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

A clear look at blurry image placeholders on the web

By Wesley Luyten • 7 min read • Engineering & Video education

Algorithms like BlurHash and ThumbHash are popular ways to render small, blurry images while the full-size images load, but are they necessary on the web?

Published on March 14, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Live Streaming on Mux: More Secure, more Reliable, and more… Transport?

By Phil Cluff • 6 min read • Product

Mux live streaming just got even better. SRT, a modern ingest protocol that allows you to stream reliably on imperfect networks, is now available in public beta.