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Seeing double? Let your users simulcast (aka restream) to any social platform

Published on November 11, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Seeing double? Let your users simulcast (aka restream) to any social platform

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan2 min readProduct

With the new Simulcast Targets feature, developers can now let their users publish live streams on social platforms.

Patterns and anti-patterns in company values

Published on November 6, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Patterns and anti-patterns in company values

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl8 min readCompany

Company values can be exceedingly valuable, or they can be beyond worthless. You’ve probably rolled your eyes at company values at some point. Every time I see a list like “quality, integrity, and res...

Published on November 1, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Mux Contributor Program

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri1 min readCompany

Mux officially has a contributor program! We have a lot of open source repos and we love accepting contributions from outside developers. One obvious place to contribute is our open sourced API SDKs f...

New Integration Announcement: Contentful

Published on October 17, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

New Integration Announcement: Contentful

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri2 min readProduct

Use Mux to add video in your Contentful CMS content. Transcode MP4 and playback HLS videos.

Introducing HowVideo.works

Published on October 16, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Introducing HowVideo.works

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich2 min readVideo education

We’re excited to introduce HowVideo.works. It explains key concepts, and processes of modern online video plus, shows how all those pieces work together.

Using Netlify Functions to Create Mux Signing Tokens

Published on October 15, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Using Netlify Functions to Create Mux Signing Tokens

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri7 min readEngineering

See how to use Netlify Functions with Mux signing keys to easily create secure signed URLs. Open source code included.

Published on October 8, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Listen up! Mux now normalizes the volume of your audio.

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich2 min readProduct

What’s worse: When you hit play on a video and the audio BLASTS into your headphones? Or when the sound is just low enough you can almost, not quite, hear what’s going on? IMHO (In Mux’s humble opini...

Stateful Stream Processing with Kafka and Go

Published on October 3, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Stateful Stream Processing with Kafka and Go

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder14 min readEngineering

Mux uses Kafka and Go to perform stateful processing of millions of video views each day. Learn how we approach handling Kafka streams in Golang at scale.

Have you heard? We support audio-only files, too.

Published on October 1, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Have you heard? We support audio-only files, too.

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich2 min readProduct

You can now use Mux to manage your audio assets in addition to your videos. Send your audio assets to us and we’ll give you an audio-only HLS stream.

A Quick Intro To Video From Somebody Who Knows Nothing About Video

Published on September 26, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

A Quick Intro To Video From Somebody Who Knows Nothing About Video

Salar Khan
By Salar Khan4 min readVideo education

A quick intro about working with video for the first time and figuring out how HLS streaming works.