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.
Published on February 15, 2017 (over 8 years ago)
Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink
Mux receives a continuous stream of video-view event data, every second of every day. Some of these views indicate errors during the delivery or playback of video. How can we detect error spikes in rea...
Published on February 11, 2017 (over 8 years ago)
New Dimension - ASNs (What are those?)
Here at Mux, we're working hard at providing valuable insight* into your viewer's experience. One of the ways we do this is with specific dimensions, such as browser, operating system, and country (amo...
Published on January 20, 2017 (over 8 years ago)
Announcing Alerting
One of the core beliefs we have at Mux is that everything we do should help customers improve their platform and viewer experience. We help them understand the overall health of their video delivery pl...
Published on November 21, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
Mux at AWS re:Invent 2016
Mux will be attending AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas from November 29-Dec 2, 2016. Folks from our team will be available to meet and demo our video performance analytics platform. We recently launched new...
Published on November 15, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
What's new: metric comparisons and global scores
We've shipped two new features at Mux over the last two weeks. The first is a tool to compare all metrics across two or more specific values. The second is a global benchmark that gives customers an id...
Published on November 9, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
Hardware encoding in containers
The Demuxed conference was recently kind enough to invite me speak about hardware video encoding in the cloud. Hardware vendors have been hard at work recently releasing updates to their encoding chips...
Published on November 8, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
WebRTC: From the ground up
I recently had the pleasure of giving a presentation at Demuxed - the conference for video engineers. Over the past several years, I've had a fair amount of experience with live video systems and the v...
Published on October 7, 2016 (almost 9 years ago)
Six things you can do with Mux
Since starting Mux this year, we've talked with scores of video publishers. Almost everyone wants more data about their video streaming, and usually people have a couple of specific uses for this data ...
Published on September 21, 2016 (almost 9 years ago)
Mux team reflections from IBC
At the beginning of last week, a few members of the Mux team traveled to Amsterdam for the annual IBC Conference, along with 50,000+ other attendees in the broadcasting industry. Below are some of our ...
Published on September 14, 2016 (almost 9 years ago)
Buffering reduces video watch time by ~40%, according to research
According to our data, just one short buffering interruption leads to 39% less time spent watching video on a site.