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Phil Cluff
Staff Product Manager
Phil has spent the last 10 years building some of the biggest AVOD, SVOD, and public service streaming platforms in the world at the BBC and Brightcove. He’s here to chew gum and stream video, and he’s all out of gum.
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03/03/23March 3, 2023(18 days ago)
2 min read
Maximize the real estate of your Real-Time broadcasts with the Crop layout
by Phil and Wasee
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 futur ...
11/29/22November 29, 2022(4 months ago)
6 min read
Real-Time video is (really!) here.
by Phil Cluff
Good news, everyone: after spending a little over 6 months in beta, Mux Real-Time Video is now in General Availability! That means that you can develop all your amazing real-time video applications wi ...
05/24/22May 24, 2022(10 months ago)
6 min read
Introducing Real-Time Video
by Phil Cluff
First, there was on-demand video, then came live streaming, and now we’re excited to complete the trifecta of online video: announcing the public beta of Mux Real-Time Video!
12/22/21December 22, 2021(about 1 year ago)
4 min read
Stream Club is joining Mux!
by Jon and Phil
We're excited to announce that Stream Club, a platform that makes it easy for customers to build live video broadcasts and create studio-like experiences, is joining Mux!
04/08/21April 8, 2021(almost 2 years ago)
14 min read
How Oak National Academy went from vision to virtual education in 6 days [part 1]
by Lynnette and Phil
Oak National Academy started with a mission to educate virtually in lockdown. 100 million lessons later, they’re providing zero-rated education. Learn about their launch and approach to accessibility.
01/05/21January 5, 2021(about 2 years ago)
5 min read
Go live reliably from mobile with our updated Android and iOS examples
by Phil Cluff
Phil announces updates to the Mux examples for live streaming from iOS and Android.
09/10/20September 10, 2020(over 2 years ago)
4 min read
Survive CDN failures with Redundant Streams
by Phil Cluff
Learn how you can use Mux's Redundant Streams feature to make your events more resilient to larger, internet wide service outages, such as CDN failures.
07/31/20July 31, 2020(over 2 years ago)
3 min read
Announcing the Mux bug bounty program
by Phil Cluff
Today we're really excited to announce the opening of the Mux bug bounty program. Since we started Mux, we've worked hard to ensure Mux is a safe and secure environment for our customers and their vie ...
03/20/20March 20, 2020(about 3 years ago)
14 min read
A year on the road
by Phil Cluff
Phil chronicles his year talking at video streaming conferences, and talks about what's in store for the coming year.
01/30/20January 30, 2020(about 3 years ago)
12 min read
Low Latency HLS 2: Judgment Day
by Phil Cluff
Phil explains the latest changes in the Low Latency HLS specification from Apple.
01/17/20January 17, 2020(about 3 years ago)
17 min read
Subtitles, Captions, WebVTT, HLS, and those magic flags 🤔
by Phil Cluff
Join Phil on a journey exploring the modern technologies that underly captions and subtitles in online streaming, including HLS, WebVTT, and some magic flags you can set in your HLS manifest!
09/05/19September 5, 2019(over 3 years ago)
21 min read
White Paper: 7 Tips to improve Live Streaming
by Phil Cluff
Today alongside our friends at Touchstream, Datazoom, and Fastly, we’ve published a white paper packed full of tips to help you stream huge scale events successfully. Unfortunately, while writing the ...
06/14/19June 14, 2019(almost 4 years ago)
21 min read
The community gave us low-latency live streaming. Then Apple took it away.
by Phil Cluff
One bite and all your dreams will come true - Apple. Last week at WWDC, Apple announced their usual cascade of software updates, and as has been tradition for the last 4 years, Roger Pantos took the s ...
06/05/19June 5, 2019(almost 4 years ago)
1 min read
Add video to your personal homepage with Mux PHP
by Phil Cluff
Mux PHP is a lightweight wrapper around Mux’s APIs, which make it easy to integrate Mux-powered video experiences into your PHP apps.
05/14/19May 14, 2019(almost 4 years ago)
10 min read
Highlights: LiveVideoStackCon Shanghai 2019
by Phil Cluff
Last month I was lucky enough to be invited to LiveVideoStackCon 2019 in Shanghai to give a keynote session on how to design a great Video API (something we have a lot of experience with!). LiveVideoS ...
05/08/19May 8, 2019(almost 4 years ago)
1 min read
Get going with Mux Go!
by Phil Cluff
We write a lot of Go at Mux… seriously, a lot of Go. Why? Well, Go is a great systems level language for building reliable, low level software, while still being flexible enough to build high level, s ...
04/18/19April 18, 2019(almost 4 years ago)
1 min read
Introducing Mux Ruby
by Phil Cluff
Ruby is a great language to write scripts, tests, websites, and software stacks.
03/28/19March 28, 2019(almost 4 years ago)
8 min read
Did Sisvel just catch AOM with their patents down?
by Phil Cluff
On Wednesday, Sisvel International S.A. announced two new patent pools, one for the VP9 video codec and one for the AV1 video codec. These new patent pools cover "consumer display devices" and "consum ...
03/14/19March 14, 2019(about 4 years ago)
22 min read
Streaming video on the internet without MPEG
by Phil Cluff
Authors Notes: This article is based on a set of experiments I developed while investigating the feasibility of building a premium video experience using only royalty free video streaming technologies ...
02/20/19February 20, 2019(about 4 years ago)
26 min read
An adventure in OpenAPI V3 code generation
by Phil Cluff
One of our aims at Mux is to make it easy for every developer to create great video experiences in their apps. To help you build new apps, we're building more SDKs for a wider variety of languages thi ...
02/15/19February 15, 2019(about 4 years ago)
1 min read
Introducing Mux Python
by Phil Cluff
Today we’re introducing the first of several new SDKs we’ll be releasing over the coming months, Mux Python 🐍. Mux Python is a lightweight wrapper around Mux’s APIs, which make it easy to integrate M ...
01/23/19January 23, 2019(about 4 years ago)
21 min read
The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
by Phil Cluff
One of the hot topics of NAB, IBC, and Demuxed last year was “low latency” live video streaming. In this post we’ll examine the spectrum of different latencies that users experience, discuss the use c ...
11/15/18November 15, 2018(over 4 years ago)
23 min read
Streaming video teardown: Twitch vs. Amazon Prime for Thursday Night Football
by Phil Cluff
Growing up in England I’ll openly admit that American Football isn’t my first choice of sport, however, by anyone's standards, American Football is huge. Last year Amazon started live streaming Thursd ...
10/30/18October 30, 2018(over 4 years ago)
14 min read
90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality
by Phil Cluff
(and 4 other things we learned at Demuxed 2018) Last week was the annual Demuxed conference. Demuxed is a conference designed by, and for developers working with video. This year for the first time, i ...
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