Mux Blog - Video technology and more

A Swiss Army knife with various video player symbols (and a banana?) floating near each tool

Published on April 15, 2024

Why are video players so big? A trip down the rabbit hole of video playback engines

By Christian and Darius • 17 min read • Video education

A video playback engine enables more complex video use cases like adaptive bitrate streaming and DRM, but at the cost of bundle size. Is it worth it?

Graph representing the newest ad metrics to track ad playing time, failures, and startup time.

Published on April 12, 2024 (3 days ago)

Don’t press skip: Introducing new ad QoE metrics

By Steven Lyons • 8 min read • Product

Improve revenue and retention with your streaming video by ensuring your ad Quality of Experience. Learn how the latest Mux Data ad metrics can help.

Building blocks in the style of LEGO stacked together. The blue building block has a player symbol with a graph above it.

Published on April 11, 2024 (4 days ago)

Off with our head: How we're making Mux Data play nice with everything

By Eric Elia • 4 min read • Product

For data products to be fully utilized across an organization, they need to be interoperable and standards-based. Learn how we make this possible with Mux Data.

Published on April 10, 2024 (5 days ago)

Keeping up with the Node-ish ecosystem

By Dylan Jhaveri • 9 min read • Engineering

How we updated our legacy Node SDK to work with new JS runtimes like Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Deno and Vercel Edge functions.

On a blue background an icon of a video player with a graph above it with the word new written beside it

Published on April 9, 2024 (6 days ago)

Discover the latest Mux Data metrics and features

By Sarah Brown • 4 min read • Product

The Mux Data team has been hard at work building new metrics and next-level insights. Learn more about what they've been up to.

A mockup of an application where a thumbnail of a snowboarder is blurry, then replaced with a full-resolution image.

Published on March 28, 2024 (18 days ago)

A clear look at blurry image placeholders on the web

By Wesley Luyten • 7 min read • Engineering & Video education

Algorithms like BlurHash and ThumbHash are popular ways to render small, blurry images while the full-size images load, but are they necessary on the web?

Published on March 14, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

Live Streaming on Mux: More Secure, more Reliable, and more… Transport?

By Phil Cluff • 6 min read • Product

Mux live streaming just got even better. SRT, a modern ingest protocol that allows you to stream reliably on imperfect networks, is now available in public beta.