The Mux Blog
We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.
Published on April 11, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
How we got critical data everywhere, all at once
There’s a common anti-pattern in engineering orgs: one team comes up with a solution, then another team builds their own despite how similar the needs are. Rinse and repeat a few times. Eventually, you...
Published on April 6, 2023 (over 2 years ago)
Up next: the lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue
How the Wolf of Wall Street almost killed the internet Back in the 1990s, a lot was going on. While we were learning to do the Macarena and struggling to keep our Tamagotchis alive, the internet was s...
Published on April 4, 2023 (over 2 years ago)
Get more from your player analytics and Akamai CDN logs with CMCD
Using CMCD with Mux Data and Akamai, tie your viewer’s quality of experience analytics together with CDN performance logs to achieve end-to-end visibility.
Published on April 3, 2023 (over 2 years ago)
Lessons learned building headless chrome as a service
Over the last year, our team has been working on a new kind of web experience. We've hinted at its development during brand events and conference talks, and we're finally ready to reveal it on the ma...
Published on March 22, 2023 (over 2 years ago)
Manipulate live video using nothing but HTML, CSS, and JS
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...
Published on March 8, 2023 (over 2 years ago)
Edge Config: first line of defense against script kiddies
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 (over 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 March 2, 2023 (over 2 years ago)
Ksssht, over: Walkie-Talkies and WebRTC ingest signaling
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 (over 2 years ago)
Export live stream health data to your cloud infrastructure in no time
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 (over 2 years ago)
Tie together your client and CDN logs using Mux Data with CMCD
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 — ...