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A promo image for Mux fall launch week 2024. It features a jack-o-lantern with a purple steam rising from its cap. A pair of green hands with long black fingernails cups the pumpkin in their palms. A spooky bat flies nearby.

Published on November 5, 2024 (3 months ago)

Here's everything we launched in Fall 2024

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss3 min readCompany

Relive the terror of Mux Fall Launch Week: new Dropped Views metric, player themes, premium video quality options, and MP4 support for basic assets.

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Published on October 31, 2024 (3 months ago)

The most requested feature for basic assets is here: MP4 support

Mike Smith
By Mike Smith2 min readProduct

MP4 support for basic assets has just been unlocked. MP4s are perfect for offline playback, social embeds, and more. Learn how you can start using them today.

Radio buttons with Premium video, plus video, and basic video. Premium is selected with with the text NEW! next to it.

Published on October 30, 2024 (3 months ago)

One size does not fit all: Introducing premium video quality for Mux Video

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff7 min readProductVideo quality

Introducing premium quality video level for live and on-demand videos. It optimizes quality for your premium content using AI-driven per-title encoding.

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Published on October 28, 2024 (3 months ago)

The case of the dropped views: New data metric for the QoE sleuth

Ashley Cutler
By Ashley Cutler3 min readProduct

Introducing View Dropped Percentage — a new Mux Data metric to help you identify trends in unexplained dropped views.

Scissors clipping a video timeline

Published on October 24, 2024 (3 months ago)

Instant clipping just got clippier: Now for any VOD asset

Erik Peña
By Erik Peña3 min readProduct

Instant clipping is now available for all on-demand video assets, allowing quick clip creation without encoding or storage costs.

A skeleton hand grips a pink quill. Aware of its finite time, it scribes code onto a black surface.

Published on October 14, 2024 (4 months ago)

Your docs are aging (and so are you)

Dave Kiss
Darius Cepulis
Rob Mach
By Dave, Darius, and Rob11 min readProduct

When's the last time you audited your developer docs? We felt the pain that our customers were facing with our docs — and set off on an adventure to fix it.

waveform canceled

Published on October 10, 2024 (4 months ago)

Cancel culture: When two sounds collide

Alex de Chaves
By Alex de Chaves4 min readCustomers

The surprising cause behind our customer’s silent video – and how it took 133 messages to solve It

Glassdoor logo and Mux logo, on a green background

Published on October 9, 2024 (4 months ago)

Glassdoor + Mux: Video to engage community, built in a way developers love

Lamia Chlala
By Lamia Chlala5 min readCustomers

Glassdoor partners with Mux to build video features that enable authentic community engagement for their users.

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Published on October 8, 2024 (4 months ago)

Introducing Player.style — Video and audio player themes for every player

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan3 min readProduct

Unlock creativity in video player customization with Player.style, a new open-source project by Mux.

Chart representing 13 months of data

Published on September 9, 2024 (5 months ago)

Mux Data now with long-ER term metrics

Ashley Cutler
By Ashley Cutler4 min readProduct

Introducing long-term storage for Mux Data, giving customers more flexibility to analyze video performance over time. Now in private beta.