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Published on May 1, 2023 (12 months ago)

Video analytics and Mux Data: Reflecting on NAB and what streamers care about today

Eric Elia
Steven Lyons
By Eric and Steven5 min readEvents

For the past several years at NAB, we’ve spent hours with video engineering leaders from some of the largest media companies on the planet. This is just one more in-person opportunity for us to connect...

Published on April 27, 2023 (12 months ago)

How to transcode video 100x faster; or, a Gordian knot cut

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl6 min readProduct

Five years ago, in a blog post titled “The fastest video publishing in the multiverse,” I made the following claim: Mux Video is the first video streaming platform that doesn’t make users wait for tra...

An illustration of a small screen television with a built-in VCR. A live indicator appears at the top of the screen. Radio waves emanate in the background.

Published on April 21, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Simulate a live stream of a video playlist with FFmpeg

Levi Miller
By Levi Miller4 min readEngineering

Learn how to live stream your prerecorded content as if you were broadcasting live using Mux and FFmpeg.

An AI-generated photo of an automaton using a Wacom tablet at a dimly-lit desk in a dusty workshop

Published on April 17, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Experiments with AI video content strategy

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss8 min readEngineering

You’ve created some video content! High five! …Now comes the slog.  Do you have all your tweets written? Is your companion blog post ready to go? Do you have your Open Graph image designed? What about ...

Published on April 13, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates and saved $750k

Mark Franceschini
By Mark Franceschini8 min readEngineering

If you had asked me two years ago which sport a video startup needs to be most worried about, I would have said American football or basketball. My US-centric mind would never have considered that socc...

Published on April 11, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

How we got critical data everywhere, all at once

Faith Szeto
By Faith Szeto10 min readEngineering

There’s a common anti-pattern in engineering orgs: one team comes up with a solution, then another team builds their own despite how similar the needs are. Rinse and repeat a few times. Eventually, you...

A laptop showing an abstract representation of a Youtube-like webpage and a magnifying glass with red exclamation marks

Published on April 6, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Up next: the lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue

Victoria Nemiah
By Victoria Nemiah9 min readVideo news

How the Wolf of Wall Street almost killed the internet Back in the 1990s, a lot was going on. While we were learning to do the Macarena and struggling to keep our Tamagotchis alive, the internet was s...

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Published on April 4, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Get more from your player analytics and Akamai CDN logs with CMCD

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons16 min readProduct

Using CMCD with Mux Data and Akamai, tie your viewer’s quality of experience analytics together with CDN performance logs to achieve end-to-end visibility.

Web inputs diagram showing web inputs to headless Chrome running XVFB + PULS + FFMPEG with a live stream output

Published on April 3, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Lessons learned building headless chrome as a service

Walker Griggs
By Walker Griggs6 min readEngineering

Over the last year, our team has been working on a new kind of web experience. We've hinted at its development during brand events and conference talks, and we're finally ready to reveal it on the ma...

Published on March 30, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Create real-time video with native mobile SDKs

Paul Klein
By Paul Klein3 min readProduct

An overwhelming majority of video is created and consumed using smartphones. When was the last time you recorded a video with something other than a phone? And it isn’t just recording; all of our favor...