Phil Cluff
Director of Product Management, Mux Video
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.
Published on March 4, 2025 (about 1 month ago)
No more waiting, no more thawing: Automatic Cold Storage gets even cooler
New Automatic Cold Storage updates — eligible newly created assets will immediately move into the cold storage tier and start saving up to 60% in storage costs.
Published on October 30, 2024 (6 months ago)
One size does not fit all: Introducing premium video quality for Mux Video
Introducing premium quality video level for live and on-demand videos. It optimizes quality for your premium content using AI-driven per-title encoding.
Published on August 29, 2024 (8 months ago)
Not so basic anymore: More features for basic assets
Updated 10/31/24: MP4 support is now available for basic quality assets. Learn more Yesterday Meg and I bid a tearful "arrivederci" to encoding tiers, and introduced their replacement — video quality ...
Published on August 28, 2024 (8 months ago)
No one said naming was easy: Encoding tiers are now video quality levels
We’ve updated some of our naming conventions to make life even easier when selecting the right video quality for you.
Published on July 11, 2024 (9 months ago)
Introducing DRM: The latest tool in protecting your content on Mux
DRM is now in beta for Mux Video. Learn about the newest tool in stream protection offered by Mux and how you can join the beta waitlist.
Published on June 18, 2024 (10 months ago)
What is DRM?
Explore the basics of DRM (Digital Rights Management) and how it protects video content from piracy. Learn when to use DRM and the tradeoffs involved.
Published on May 8, 2024 (11 months ago)
Clip me, baby, one more time: Introducing instant clipping
Introducing instant clipping: a new way to clip live streams and assets created from live streams with Mux at no extra cost.
Published on April 23, 2024 (12 months ago)
Making the first mile as reliable as the last mile: SRT support is now GA
Now in general availability -- Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) live ingest for Mux Video. SRT on Mux also supports HEVC. Learn more.
Published on March 14, 2024 (about 1 year ago)
Live Streaming on Mux: More Secure, more Reliable, and more… Transport?
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.
Published on January 18, 2024 (about 1 year ago)
Guau! Wauw! Vau! Wow! VOD auto-generated captions are now available in 22 languages!
21 new caption languages and an API to retroactively add captions — our GA announcement of VOD auto-generated, powered by OpenAI Whisper, is full of exciting ways to make content reach more audiences.
Published on October 30, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
More tools to control playback behavior: min_resolution & rendition_order
Mux Video now supports 2 new playback modifiers. min_resolution to limit the renditions available. rendition_order to set the order renditions appear.
Published on October 18, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Our next pricing lever: Baseline on-demand assets with free video encoding
Introducing the next pricing lever, baseline video assets. Baseline assets are a cost-effective alternative asset type for on-demand video, with free encoding.
Published on September 13, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
More pixels, fewer problems: Introducing 4K support for Mux Video
Mux Video now supports ingesting, storing, and delivering videos at 4K resolutions (2160p), allowing customers to deliver higher quality video content to viewers.
Published on August 30, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Parlez-vous anglais? Introducing multi-track audio
Mux now supports multi-track audio. Add alternate audio tracks to your on-demand video to let your viewers choose the experience that's best for them.
Published on March 3, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Maximize the real estate of your Real-Time broadcasts with the Crop layout
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...
Published on December 22, 2021 (over 3 years ago)
Stream Club is joining Mux!
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!
Published on April 8, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
How Oak National Academy went from vision to virtual education in 6 days [part 1]
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.
Published on January 5, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Go live reliably from mobile with our updated Android and iOS examples
We’ve updated our RTMP streaming examples for iOS & Android for better performance, features, & Mux live streaming support.
Published on September 10, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Survive CDN failures with Redundant Streams
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.
Published on July 31, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Announcing the Mux bug bounty program
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...
Published on March 20, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
A year on the road
Phil chronicles his year talking at video streaming conferences, and talks about what's in store for the coming year.
Published on January 30, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
Low Latency HLS 2: Judgment Day
Phil explains the latest changes in the Low Latency HLS specification from Apple.
Published on January 17, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
Subtitles, Captions, WebVTT, HLS, and those magic flags 🤔
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!
Published on September 5, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
White Paper: 7 Tips to improve Live Streaming
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 ...
Published on June 14, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)
The community gave us low-latency live streaming. Then Apple took it away.
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...
Published on June 5, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)
Add video to your personal homepage with Mux PHP
Mux PHP is a lightweight wrapper around Mux’s APIs, which make it easy to integrate Mux-powered video experiences into your PHP apps.
Published on May 14, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)
Highlights: LiveVideoStackCon Shanghai 2019
Updated 8/4/21: We hit pause on audience-adaptive encoding. Read more. Last month I was lucky enough to be invited to LiveVideoStackCon 2019 in Shanghai to give a keynote session on how to design a gr...
Published on May 8, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)
Get going with Mux Go!
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, sc...
Published on April 18, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)
Introducing Mux Ruby
Ruby is a great language to write scripts, tests, websites, and software stacks.
Published on March 28, 2019 (about 6 years ago)
Did Sisvel just catch AOM with their patents down?
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 "consume...
Published on March 14, 2019 (about 6 years ago)
Streaming video on the internet without MPEG
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,...
Published on February 20, 2019 (about 6 years ago)
An adventure in OpenAPI V3 code generation
Learn about Mux's journey to support 10+ languages with SDKs, leveraging OpenAPI V3, and tackling code gen challenges.
Published on February 15, 2019 (about 6 years ago)
Introducing Mux Python
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 Mu...
Published on January 23, 2019 (about 6 years ago)
The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
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 ca...
Published on November 15, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Streaming video teardown: Twitch vs. Amazon Prime for Thursday Night Football
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 Thursda...
Published on October 30, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality
(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...