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.

video player with lock icon in the center

Published on May 1, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

If someone can watch it, they can steal it: securing video content on the internet

By Dylan Jhaveri • 16 min read • Engineering • Stream security

Understand how attackers steal video content and what you can do to prevent downloading, unauthorized playback, screen recording with signed URLs and DRM

Published on April 26, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Here's everything we launched in Spring 2024

By Dave Kiss • 5 min read • Product

Looking to get caught up on the latest features, releases, and content from Mux? Say no more fam. This blog post has you covered.

Published on April 23, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Making the first mile as reliable as the last mile: SRT support is now GA

By Phil Cluff • 8 min read • Product

Now in general availability -- Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) live ingest for Mux Video. SRT on Mux also supports HEVC. Learn more.

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.

Three cards side by side representing Mux pricing plans. The read: Pay as you go, Starter with the word new beside it, and Custom. Below each title are 3 checkmarks.

Published on February 22, 2024 (about 2 years ago)

Starter Plan: a new way to play (and pay) for Video

By Meg Salisbury • 5 min read • Product • Pricing

Introducing a brand new pricing plan: Starter. $10 for $100 of usage a month.

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