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We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

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Published on August 30, 2023 (7 months ago)

Parlez-vous anglais? Introducing multi-track audio

Phil Cluff
Lamia Chlala
By Phil and Lamia4 min readProduct

Mux now supports multi-track audio. Add alternate audio tracks to your on-demand video to let your viewers choose the experience that's best for them.

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Published on August 29, 2023 (7 months ago)

How Mux Data monitored the largest livestream in history

Sarah Brown
By Sarah Brown6 min readCompany & Engineering

This past spring, we stepped up to the challenge of using Mux Data to monitor one of the largest live streaming events in history. Here's how we did it.

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Published on August 24, 2023 (7 months ago)

Cloud encoding APIs are a dying breed: lessons learned from building three cloud video startups

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan8 min readEngineering

It's becoming increasingly clear that cloud encoding APIs are on their way out. Read our perspective on where cloud video encoding is headed.

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Published on August 21, 2023 (7 months ago)

Faster video processing and cost controls with Mux's Upload SDKs for iOS and Android

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri5 min readProduct

See how you can process videos faster and control costs with Mux's Uploader SDKs for iOS and Android

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Published on August 21, 2023 (7 months ago)

Service workers are underrated, and building media proxies proves it

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure12 min readEngineering

Service workers have so much potential. Let's explore building a media proxy as a service worker that can run in your browser or in the cloud.

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Published on August 10, 2023 (8 months ago)

Can React Server Actions finally fix forms?

Darius Cepulis
By Darius Cepulis9 min readEngineering

React Server Actions offer a way of simplifying posting data to the server by calling a simple function instead. But do they live up to the promise?

An illustration depicting a video player being assembled by a blue hand like a jigsaw puzzle. The last piece is being put into place, completing the video player visualization.

Published on August 1, 2023 (8 months ago)

Approaches to building video into your app

Edwin Mejia
By Edwin Mejia18 min readVideo education

Whether you’re a solo dev or you’re part of a team guided by executive leadership, here’s what you need to know about getting video working in your app.

An illustration of a browser window showing different page components highlighted in different colors, depicting that some components are client-rendered while others are server-rendered.

Published on July 19, 2023 (8 months ago)

Everything I wish I knew before moving 50,000 lines of code to React Server Components

Darius Cepulis
By Darius Cepulis20 min readEngineering

Server Components run on the server instead of the client, giving you control over your bundle size and data fetching. Here’s everything we learned about them.

A graphic design that show a video player control bar. Hovering over the timeline are markers containing lightning bolts, depicting events occurring at specific points during the media playback.

Published on July 12, 2023 (9 months ago)

Build an interactive video transcript with Mux Player CuePoints

Christian Pillsbury
By Christian Pillsbury10 min readEngineering

Learn how you can associate interactive transcript metadata with your video playback to fire custom events as your video progresses.

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Published on July 6, 2023 (9 months ago)

Scaling data processing with an embedded key-value store: insights from our migration to BadgerDB

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder13 min readEngineering

Learn how Mux migrated from a shared, distributed Riak key-value (KV) store to the BadgerDB embedded KV store and the massive benefits it brought us.