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Published on March 22, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Manipulate live video using nothing but HTML, CSS, and JS

Adam Jaggard
By Adam Jaggard5 min readEngineering

Cloud infrastructure has made streaming video content to millions of people easier than ever. However, developers looking to add live video creation into their products have limited choices. Live vide...

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Published on March 8, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Edge Config: first line of defense against script kiddies

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford11 min readEngineering

Vercel's Edge Config can come in handy in many different ways. See how we used it to cut down on the amount of spam we were dealing with from our forms.

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

Maximize the real estate of your Real-Time broadcasts with the Crop layout

Phil Cluff
Wasee Malik
By Phil and Wasee2 min readEngineering & Product

When we announced Mux Real-Time Video, we incorporated broadcasting functionality to allow you to livestream your real-time sessions to larger audiences and to store them as on-demand videos for future...

An illustration of two walkie-talkie handheld radios communicating with each other

Published on March 2, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Ksssht, over: Walkie-Talkies and WebRTC ingest signaling

Mike English
By Mike English14 min readEngineering

In this post, you'll learn how WebRTC-HTTP ingest protocol (or WHIP) provides the convenience of RTMP while maintaining the benefits of WebRTC.

Published on February 28, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Export live stream health data to your cloud infrastructure in no time

Yushu Cao
By Yushu Cao4 min readProduct

Many Mux customers build applications for their creators to stream live video. When a customer wants to understand a given live stream’s quality metrics, such as the audio and video bitrate and frames ...

Published on February 22, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Tie together your client and CDN logs using Mux Data with CMCD

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons8 min readProduct

I have young kids, so I spend a lot of time looking for missing toys. Often we end up finding those toys under a couch or between the bed and a wall. Searching all the nooks and crannies can be hard — ...

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Published on February 15, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Our newest pricing lever: Resolution-based pricing for Mux Video

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan7 min readProduct

We lowered our pay-as-you-go pricing for video Encoding, Storage and Streaming at 720p or lower, giving you new ways to control your streaming costs!

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

Being human: How Mux built its first ERG

Dori Wilson
Ellen Hui
Lindsay Letham
By Dori, Ellen, and Lindsay11 min readCompany

See what Mux learned as they moved further into their Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) journey by building out their first Employee Resource Group (ERG).

Published on February 2, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Build an Instagram-style social media app using React Native, Firebase, and Mux

Daniel Gibson
John Reigart
By Daniel and John14 min readPartnerships

Paloma is utilizing Mux to build their Instagram-style social media app. Learn what Paloma is building and how they leveraged Mux's video infrastructure as a service.

Published on January 31, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

How Video and Connected Fitness will evolve in 2023 and beyond

Eric Elia
By Eric Elia5 min readPartnerships

Fitness studios were one of the many industries turned inside out during the pandemic. At first, we saw a boon of new live-streaming fitness experiences, alongside concerts and conferences — but the vi...