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.
September 13, 2023 (16 days ago)
Mux Video now supports ingesting, storing, and delivering videos at 4K resolutions (2160p), allowing customers to deliver higher quality video content to viewers.
August 30, 2023 (about 1 month ago)
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.
March 3, 2023 (7 months ago)
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...
November 29, 2022 (10 months ago)
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...
May 24, 2022 (over 1 year ago)
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!
December 22, 2021 (almost 2 years ago)
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!
April 8, 2021 (over 2 years ago)
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.
January 5, 2021 (over 2 years ago)
We’ve updated our RTMP streaming examples for iOS & Android for better performance, features, & Mux live streaming support.
September 10, 2020 (about 3 years ago)
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.
July 31, 2020 (about 3 years ago)
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...
March 20, 2020 (over 3 years ago)
Phil chronicles his year talking at video streaming conferences, and talks about what's in store for the coming year.
January 30, 2020 (over 3 years ago)
Phil explains the latest changes in the Low Latency HLS specification from Apple.
January 17, 2020 (over 3 years ago)
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!
September 5, 2019 (about 4 years ago)
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 ...
June 14, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
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...
June 5, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
Mux PHP is a lightweight wrapper around Mux’s APIs, which make it easy to integrate Mux-powered video experiences into your PHP apps.
May 14, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
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!). LiveVideoSt...
May 8, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
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...
April 18, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
Ruby is a great language to write scripts, tests, websites, and software stacks.
March 28, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
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...
March 14, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
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,...
February 20, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
Learn about Mux's journey to support 10+ languages with SDKs, leveraging OpenAPI V3, and tackling code gen challenges.
February 15, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
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...
January 23, 2019 (over 4 years ago)
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...
November 15, 2018 (almost 5 years ago)
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...
October 30, 2018 (almost 5 years ago)
(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...